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COUNTRY  LIFE 

PRESS 


THE  ITALIAN    PuuL 

THE  IDEA  OF  THIS  POOL  WAS  SUGGESTED  BY  THE  CYPRESS 
LINED  BASIN  AT  VILLA  FALCONIERI  AT  FRASCATI  NEAR 
ROME.  THE  BASIN  IS  30  X  70  FEET  AND  6  FEET  DEEP. 
THE  CEDAR  TREES,  WHICH  VARY  IN  HEIGHT  FROM  20  TO 
35  FEET,  WERE  BROUGHT  FROM  VARIOUS  PLACES  ON 
LONG  ISLAND — SOME  AS  MANY  AS  30  MILES 


The 
Qoiintry  Life  "Press 

garden  C^ty,  .!A(V7p  1  ^07\ 


T'ublished for  the  friends  of 
T>oubleday,  Tage  &  Company 


BY  WAY  OF 
INTRODUCTION 


HIS  little  book  is  entirely 
unconventional  in  man- 
ner and  arrangement.  It 
does  not  pretend  to  com- 
^^  pleteness  nor  to  being 
built  upon  a  well  devel- 
oped plan. 

Its  only  excuse  for  existence  is  that 
it  reflects  some  phases  of  publishing 
which  have  concerned  the  occupants  of 
Country  Life  Press  in  the  problem  of 
working  out  a  task  still  far  from  being 
fully  performed,  but  yet  reporting  certain 
progress. 

What  is  lacking  in  modesty  may  be 
to  a  degree  compensated  for  by  enthu- 
siasm, and  at  least  some  parts  of  the 
little  volume  we  hope  may  be  found  to 
be  of  interest  to  our  friends  who  are 
connected  with  the  writing  and  making 


of  books. 


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CONTENTS 


PAGE 


B\'  Way  of  Introduction        ...  3 

The  Countr\'  Life  Press    ....  7 

The  Grounds  and  Gardens    ...  49 

The  Building       65 

The  Sun  Dial 73 

Doubleda)',  Page&Co.'s  BookShops  89 

About  Our  Authors 95 

Joseph  Conrad 99 

By   James    Huneker,    H.    F.   Saxton,   and 
Richard  Curie 

Booth  Tarkington 117 

By  Robert  Cortes  Holliday 

Stewart  Edward  White      .     .     .     .     131 

By  E.  F.  Saxton 

Gene  Stratton-Porter 141 

By  H.  E.  Maule 

Selma  Lagerlof 151 

By  H.  E.  Maule 

Kathleen  Norris 161 

By  Alice  Faith  Powell 

Rud\ard  Kipling 167 

My  First  Book 

Rudyard  Kipling,  Prophet 

The  Years  Between 

The  Kipling  Index 181 

Little  Pictures  of  O.  Henry  .     .     .     235 
By  Arthur  W.  Page 

The  O.  Henry  Index 245 


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.  ^  ^.HEN  the  tenth  birthday 

^^kg/  of  Doubleday,  Page  & 
11^  ^f  §  ,  Company  was  celebrated 
on  January  i,  1910,  the 
occasion  prompted  us  to 
consider  in  what  direc- 
tion the  future  growth  of  the  business 
would  lead. 

We  realized  that  our  building  at  Nos. 
i33~J37  E^st  Sixteenth  Street,  New 
York,  was  hopelessly  inadequate.  1 1  was 
erected  in  1905,  and  although  the  floor 
space  was  just  seven  times  more  than 
the  area  occupied  at  34  Union  Square, 
where  the  business  was  begun  in  1900, 
our  needs  had  so  grown  that  very  soon  a 
separate  stock  room  had  to  be  acquired 
in  Twenty-fifth  Street,  conducted  at 
great  inconvenience;  and  the  manufac- 
ture of  books  was  carried  on  in  more  than 
a  score  of  different  places,  at  still  greater 
inconvenience. 

Th^  question  had  long  confronted  us 
as  to  what  we  should  do, to  remedy  an 

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OUR  FIRST  HOME,  JANUARY,    I  900 
THE  THIRD  FLOOR  OF  34  UN  ION  SQUARE,  N  E\V  YOR  K 

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OLK   I  IKST  BUILDING,  OCIOBhR,    I9O4 
EAST  SIXTEENTH  STREET,  NEW  YORK 


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inefficient  and  uncomfortable  business 
home. 

In  January,  1910,  we  stopped  working 
for  a  little  and  began  thinking,  and  it 
occurred  to  us  that  we  could  well  afford 
to  make  any  reasonable  sacrifice  in  re- 
leasing our  building  in  Sixteenth  Street 
to  gain  what  we  really  needed — a  plant 
to  do  all  our  work  and  to  do  it  under  the 
best  conditions  under  a  single  roof. 

So  much  does  the  mind  run  in  grooves 
that  although  we  had  been  advocating 
the  country  as  a  place  for  living  and  doing 
one's  work  we  still  spent  our  efforts  in 
studying  quarters  in  New  York  City. 
The  high  price  of  property,  the  limitations 
of  a  small  area  of  land,  the  cost  of  erect- 
ing and  maintaining  a  city  building  of 
many  stories,  the  tremendous  difficulty 
of  getting  good  light,  caused  us  to  realize 
the  obvious  fact  that  we  could  not  do 
what  we  wanted  to  do  in  any  big  city, 
least  of  all  New  York. 

We  needed  at  least  1 50.000  square 
feet  of  floor  space:  this  meant  a  building 
on  a  plot  say  one  hundred  feet  square, 
fifteen  stories  high,  with  cellars  and  sub- 
cellars,  and  much  of  the  space  taken  up 
by  elevators  and  service  rooms,  at  a  cost 

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per  square  foot  for  interest  on  invest- 
ment and  taxes  at  least  twice  what  it 
would  cost  outside  of  New  York,  to  say 
nothing  of  gaining  the  advantage  of  large 
floor  spaces  in  the  country  instead  of  small 
ones,  of  sunlight  instead  of  electric  light, 
and  of  the  opportunity  to  grow 

We  were  drawn  to  Long  Island  for  two 
reasons:  In  the  first  place,  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad  was  adopting  it  as  its 
ward,  which  meant  ultimate  good  service 
—perhaps  the  best  in  the  country;  the 


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tunnels  were  nearly  complete  and  would 
mean  quick  and  convenient  communica- 
tion; and,  in  the  second  place,  because 
land  on  Long  Island  was  less  dear  than 
at  other  places  so  near  the  great  city. 

Garden  City  attracted  us  because  it  was 
an  established  community  and  had  gone 
beyond  the  state  of  raw  ''development" 
which  makes  so  many  American  sub- 
urban places  an  object  lesson  in  what 
not  to  do.  It  was  already  settled,  with 
water,  gas,  electricity,  sidewalks,  sewers, 
trees  planted  forty  years  ago  by  Mr.  A.  T. 
Stewart,  its  original  owner;  with  shaded 


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roads,  streets,  a  ^ood  hotel,  schools,  a 
cathedral,  clubs,  and  a  reliable  and  pro- 
gressive company  in  charge  of  its  affairs. 
It  was  twent\-  miles  from  the  heart  of 
New  York  on  an  electrified  branch  of  the 
l.ong  Island  Railroad.  40  minutes  from 
the  new  Penns)lvania  Station  in  New 
York,  and  had  in  its  immediate  neigh- 


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borhood  Hempstead  (a  fine  old  town), 
Mineola,  and  a  dozen  small  places  con- 
nected by  trolley  wherein  our  people 
could  find  homes. 

The  land  for  the  Press  itself  was  dis- 
covered  in   a  crescent-shaped   piece   of 


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ground,  a  full  half  mile  in  length,  on 
Franklin  Avenue,  on  which  a  trolley  runs 
north  and  south  across  Long  Island 
connecting  with  many  small  towns — an 
ideal  situation  for  the  business  buildings, 
because  the  Long  Island  Railroad  has 
its  electric  track  in  the  rear.  A  close 
switching  connection  was  made  with  it 

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and  our  own  private  track  at  the  north 
and  south  openings  of  the  Press.  In 
addition,  we  secured  about  five  and  a 
half  acres  at  the  back  of  the  Press,  and 
in  the  front  of  it,  across  the  Avenue,  a 
full  block,  a  plot  500  x  1200  (about  six- 


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teen  acres)  for  future  uses — nearly  forty 
acres  altogether,  which  provides  plenty 
of  room  for  growth. 

In  March,  1910,  the  land  was  purchased 
and  plans  without  number  were  made 
for  the  building.  The  architects,  Messrs. 
Kirby  and  Petit,  were  untiring  in  their 
efforts,   drawing  hundreds  of  sheets  of 

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ONE  OF  THE  FOUNTAINS — IN   IRIS  TIME 


detail  to  fit  conditions  which  each  de- 
partment imposed  upon  them. 

A  large  quantity  of  supplies  had  to  be 
contracted  for — steel,  cement,  some  mil- 
lions of  bricks — and  all  at  break-neck 
speed,  as  we  had  decided  that  we  should 
move  in  the  Fall  of  1910.      Many  tales 

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could  be  told  of  rushed  work;  steel  from 
Pittsburg  being  actually  delivered  on  the 
ground  four  da>s  after  the  order  was 
given;  cement  by  the  car-load,  and  trains 
of  brick  hurrying  along;  sand  and  gravel 
dug  by  the  thousand  yards  from  a  pit  on 
our  own  land,  our  own  railroad  track  laid 

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in  a  couple  of  days,  and  several  hundred 
men  beginning  to  work  all  at  once. 

Toward  the  end  of  May,  1910,  footings 
for  foundations  were  laid,  but  through 
unforeseen  troubles  they  had  to  be  re- 
moved and  the  actual  building  did  not 
begin  until  June  ist.  It  seemed  im- 
possible that,  starting  so  late,  the  build- 
ing, engines,  boilers,  elevators,  steam 
heating,  wiring,  electrical  contrivances, 
and  all  the  other  complicated  things 
necessary  to  complete  such  a  structure 
could  be  finished  by  the  end  of  Septem- 
ber. Would  it  be  possible  for  us  to 
move  in  and  print  the  November  issues 
of  our  magazines  as  we  had  hoped?     By 

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the  aid  of  our  very  good  friends,  the 
architects,  the  contractors,  and  the  sub- 
contractors, the  building  was  nearly 
enough  completed  for  the  moving  of  the 
composing  room  and  other  machinery 
to  be  begun  on  September  15th,  just 
three  and  a  half  months  from  the  starting 
of  the  real  building  operations,  and  the 
engines  began  to  turn  and  to  actually 
make  electric  power  for  the  machines  on 
September  26,  1910—94  w^orking  days 
from  the  beginning. 

On  October  ist  the  office  force  moved 
to  Garden  City  and  business  in  the 
country  began.  We  had  decided  when 
we  started  The  Country  Life  Press  that 
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add  to  its  efficiency.  The  power  was  to 
be  conveyed  to  every  machine  b\'  electric 
wires,  and  each,  no  matter  how  small, 
even  the  adding  and  invoicing  machines, 
should  have  its  own  motor.  Letters,  also, 
are  folded,  the  stamps  put  on  the  en- 
velopes, and  the  envelope  sealed — by 
a  machine  with  its  tiny  motor  giving  it 
life. 

With  due  allowance  for  the  enthusiasm 
of  a  new  enterprise  we  felt  that  The 
Countr\'  Life  Press  had  been  well  started 
on  a  career  which  we  hoped  would  grow 
from  year  to  \ear. 

It  is  now  about  nine  \ears  since  this 
start  was  made.  Doubleda\-,  Page 
&  Co.  have  had  man\'  experiences  during 
that  time,  and  mostl\'  pleasant  exper- 
iences: at  all  events,  we  still  believe  in 
and  enjo\'  our  Count r\-  Life  Press  plan. 

The  enterprise  has  grown,  notwith- 
standing all  the  distresses  and  troubles 
of  the  war,  poor  business,  lack  of  labor 
in  the  war  period  now  happily  passed; 
and  it  is  our  hope  that  we  do  better  work 
in  all  our  departments,  and  we  know  we 
do  more  of  it. 

Our  conveniences  and  comforts  have 
increased.     We  have  our  own   W^estern 


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L  nion  telegraph  ofifice  and  our  own  tele- 
phone system,  with  eighty  branches  in  the 
building,  and  our  own  trunk  line  wires  to 


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the  New  York  office,  1 1 6  West  32d  Street. 
We  have  our  little  hospital  and  nurse 
to  keep  people  from  getting  ill  if  we  can 
manage  it,  and  to  assist  those  who  fall 
sick;  and  a  very  expert  dentist  with  the 
most  approved  of  modern  appliances 
to  serve  in  this  most  important  of  pro- 
phylactic purposes. 

The  statement  most  frequently  made  to 
us  was  that  people  who  edit,  print,  and 
publish  would  not  leave  "the  Great  White 
Way,"  meaning,  we  take  it,  Fifth  Avenue 
and  Broadway,  but  they  have  managed 
to  do  even  this  and  show  contentment. 

In  the  Sixteenth  Street  building  we 
numbered  about  400;  in  Garden  City 
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we  are  now  about  a  thousand.  Not  a 
single  person  holding  a  responsible  or 
managing  position  disapproved  of  our 
plans,  and  on  the  day  we  moved  in 
we  had  hundreds  of  applications  for 
positions  in  the  mechanical  departments 
alone — many  from  people  who  wanted 
to  move  away  from  the  city,  and  at  all 
times  we  have  scores  and  hundreds  of 
applications  for  positions  in  every  de- 
partment. We  mention  this  not  because 
we  think  our  experience  has  been  un- 
usual, but  because  we  have  always  be- 
lieved that  people  appreciate  stead\' 
work  and  pay  and  good  working  con- 
ditions. 

When  we  first  moved  to  Garden  City 
we  were  able  to  produce  about  6,500 
books  a  day  in  the  cloth  bindery.  This 
output  was  doubled  in  a  few  years,  and 
at  the  time  this  paragraph  is  written  we 
are  turning  out  about  20,000  cloth  and 
leather  bound  books  ever\'  twenty-four 
hours.  In  the  magazine  department 
the  capacity  has  risen  from  13,000  to  a 
maximum  of  50,000  magazines  a  day ;  and 
we  grow,  if  not  by  leaps  and  bounds,  with 
a  certain  substantial  steadiness. 

We  are  still  an  open  shop;  we  greatlx 
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A  CORNER  OF  THE  COURT  STEPS 

value  the  friendship  of  our  D.  P.  &  Co. 
co-workers,  who  have  done  their  best  in 
providing  men  for  the  Army  and  Nav>', 
in  buying  Liberty  Bonds  and  Thrift 
Stamps  to  a  substantial  amount — about 
three  quarters  of  a  miUion  dollars. 
A  few  friends  of  kindly  thought  have 
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referred  to  our  plans  at  Garden  Cit\-  a 
a  "welfare"  and  an  "uplift"  affair.  It 
is  not  even  remotel\'  this  sort  of  an  enter- 
prise, but  a  plain  matter  of  business,  and 
our  fellow-workers  would  not  be  a  part 
of  such  an  organization.  We  have  no 
doubt  they  would  resent  any  intimation 
that  the  whole  business  was  founded 
or  conducted  upon  anything  but  a  strict 
"  quid  pro  quo."  At  all  events,  we  should 
not  wish  to  make  any  offer  that  was  not 
a  practical  business  one.  The  Country- 
Life  Press  is  an  endeavor  to  get  the  ut- 
most business  efficiency  in  all  depart- 
ments, and  success  in  securing  such 
efficienc\-  means  permanence  of  work  and 
steady  pay,  good  light,  air,  sunshine,  and 
a  clean  workshop,  comfortable  premises, 
and  as  attractive  surroundings  as  can  be 
managed  without  excessive  expense  or 
impairing  practical  working  conditions. 
All  these  things  lead  to  a  better  spirit, 
and  work  done  in  fewer  hours  and  with 
greater  cheerfulness. 

"How  about  your  bulk  mail  which 
you  formed)'  sent  to  the  New  York  Post 
Office?     Has    not    this    been    delayed?" 

To  which  we  answer:  "No."     On  the 
contrary,  the  Government  has  established 
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a  post  office  in  our  own  building.  The 
mail  is  weighed  and  paid  for  in  bulk, 
wheeled  into  our  own  postal  car,  on  the 
track  at  the  south  door,  assorted,  tagged 
and  routed  to  destination,  saving  man\- 
hours  lost  b\'  the  congested  conditions  in 
New  York,  and  on  most  days  some 
fifteen  tons  go  in  this  waw  When  we 
moved  to  Garden  City  the  business  of  the 
local  post  office  was  about  S7.000  a  year; 
it  is  now  nearly  Si  50.000. 

The  Long  Island  Railroad  has  built 
an  attractive  little  brick  station  called 
"Country  Life  Press"  at  which  all  trains 
stop  in  our  own  grounds,  and  which  has 
become  well  known  to  the  thousands  of 
soldiers  who  on  their  wa\'  to  or  from  the 
battlefields  of  Europe  have  stopped  at 
Camp  Mills. 

It  is  sad  but  true  that  too  few  people 
seek  us  out  to  buy  our  wares.  In  com- 
mon with  our  contemporaries  we  are 
obliged  to  press  our  salesmen's  attentions 
upon  customers  in  the  various  depart- 
ments in  their  places  of  business  in  New 
York,  and  throughout  the  entire  country. 
But  if  any  one  seeks  our  books  in  the 
metropolis,  they  can  be  obtained  at  our 
New  York  offiice,  1 16  West  32d  Street,  or 
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in  an>-  one  of  our  three  good  bookshops- 
one  in  the  concourse  of  the  l>ennsylvania 
station,  one  on  the  busy  corner  of  38th 
Mreet  and  Fifth  Avenue  in  the  Lord  & 
1  a>'lor  store,  and  the  other  in  the  down- 


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town  district,  at  55  Liberty  Street  if 
any  one  wants  to  advertise  in  any  of  our 
pubhcations  some  joung  gentleman  well 
versed  m  advertising  lore  will  be  found 
m  the  New  York  Ofifice.  If,  on  the  con- 
trar>-,  our  friends  are  looking  to  secure 
orders  from  us.  Garden  Citv  is  but  a 
moderate  distance  to  travel  for  benefits 
received. 

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THE    TENNIS    COURT,     AND 
ITS  ROSE  ARBOR  BACKSTOP 

In  New  York  the  clerk  and  the  operator 
must  usually  travel  on  an  average  of 
two  hours  a  day  in  the  subway  or  trains 
in  crowded  cars  between  home  and  work. 
Men  and  women  get  to  their  tasks  tired 
and  return  home  exhausted  at  night. 
In  the  country,  when  the  home  is  near-by, 
they  increase  their  living  day  (counting 
the  journey  as  wasted)  perhaps  20  per 
cent.,  and  working  conditions  and  com- 
forts probably  20  per  cent.  more. 

In  reviewing  the  more  interesting 
developments  in  the  history  of  this  firm 
we  feel  that  it  is  quite  possible  to  say  in 
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retrospect  that  Doubleday,  Page  &  Com- 
pany have  been  consistently  in  the  van- 
guard of  forward-looking  movements  both 
political  and  economic.  In  order  to  pro- 
vide an  adequate  means  of  expression  or 
interpretation  of  the  times,  the  new  firm 
brought  out  in  1901  the  first  issue  of  the 
IVorld's  Work  with  Walter  H.  Page 
as  its  Editor.  There  were  other  maga- 
zines of  a  serious  nature  published  then, 
such  as  The  Review  of  Reviews,  and  The 
Literary  Digest,  but  the  World's  Work 
was  the  first  popular  interpretation  of 
the  questions  of  the  times  in  which  all 


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the  contributions  were  original — written 
primarily  and  solely  for  that  magazine. 

Since  that  time  the  World's  IVork  has 
kept  in  the  forefront  of  current  thought 
and  at  the  present  time  enjoys  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  one  of  the  leading  maga- 
zines of  the  country  devoted,  up  to  the 
signing  of  the  armistice,  almost  entirely 
to  the  prosecution  of  the  war,  and  now 
to  problems  of  reconstruction. 

In  the  years  before  the  war  the  World's 
Work  was  an  exponent  of  conservation 
of  our  natural  resources;  it  carried  on 
a  strong  crusade  against  the  pension 
frauds,  and  v/as  in  the  lead  in  most  pro- 
gressive movements.  It  also  has  carried 
in  its  pages  the  life  stories  of  some  of 
America's  great  characters.  Its  circu- 
lation has  grown  steadily  \ear  after  \ear, 
new  features  introduced  in  accordance 
with  the  spirit  of  the  time,  adding  new 
readers  of  a  very  high  class. 

Upon  the  day  that  war  was  declared  in 
Europe  the  September,  19 14,  issue  of  the 
World's  Work  was  beginning  to  run  on  the 
presses.  The  editors  simply  killed  the 
magazine  which  had  been  made  up  with 
the  usual  care  and  at  the  usual  expense, 
and  called  in  all  the  experts  needed  to 
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turn  out  the  successful  IVorld's  IVork 
IVar  Manual.  College  professors  con- 
sented to  write  all  night  long  like  news- 
paper reporters  upon  the  strength  and 
resources  of  the  belligerent  nations,  and 
editors  hastened  hither  and  yon  to 
gather  all  possible  war  facts  for  which 


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the  public  was  clamoring.  The  issue 
was  sent  to  press  five  different  times 
in  a  few  weeks.  Besides  this  a  large 
number  of  copies  of  the  ,issue  were 
sold  in  permanent  cloth  and  leather 
bindings.  From  that  time  on  the  World's 
IVork  and  the  book  department  of 
Doubleday,  Page  &  Company  have 
kept  abreast  of  the  course  of  events 
during  and  since  the  war.  Hugh  Gib- 
son's "Journal  From  Our  Legation  in 
Belgium,"  which  ran  serially  in  the 
IVorld's  Work  and  later  appeared  in  book 
form,  was  the  first  complete  and  authentic 
first-hand  record  of  Germany's  ruthless 
course  in  Belgium.  "Ambassador  Mor- 
genthau's  Story,"  which  followed  the 
same  course  of  publication,  is  one  of  the 
outstanding  books  of  the  war. 

BOOK    PUBLISHING    PLANS 

Although  the  firm  of  Doubleday,  Page 
&  Company  was  still  only  four  years  old 
and  starting  magazines  was  generally 
considered  a  hazardous  and  expensive 
pastime  Country  Life  In  America  was 
begun  in  1901  just  one  year  after  the 
World's  Work  appeared.  Four  years 
after  that,  in  February,  1905,  The  Garden 

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Magazine  was  started.  This  early  habit 
of  starting  magazines,  coupled  with  the 
publication  of  a  book  by  Andrew  Car- 
negie, gave  Dame  Rumor  sufficient 
grounds  upon  which  to  found  a  legend 
that  Mr.  Carnegie  helped  finance  us, 
and  later  when  we  published  Mr.  Rocke- 
feller's reminiscences  the  same  authority 
added  his  backing  to  our  financial 
strength.  Neither  was  true  and,  happily, 
neither  needed,  for  all  three  magazines 
were  able  from  the  very  first  to  repay 
the  effort  put  upon  them. 

Country  Life  began  its  career  at  a 
fortunate  time  when  a  widespread  inter- 
est in  country  living  was  growing  up,  an 
interest  which  has  constantly  increased 
as  the  automobile  has  made  the  country 
accessible  as  a  place  in  which  to  live.  The 
magazine  has  tried  to  be  an  interpreter 
of  the  taste  and  beauty  that  is  more  and 
more  an  attribute  of  American  country 
homes.  It  has  been  at  the  same  time  a  re- 
corder of  the  awakening  interest  in  Nature. 
In  its  early  issues  the  Nature  photographs 
— from  those  of  humming  birds  to  the 
caribou  of  A.  Radclyfl'e  Dugmore — set  a 
new  standard  for  pictures  of  the  sort. 

At  the  present  time  Country  Life  with 
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its  color  features  in  every  issue  hopes  to 
continue  to  set  new  standards. 

Tkc  Garde7i  Magazine  also  was  born 
under  lucky  auspices  for  it  came  into 
being  coincident  with  a  widespread  gar- 
dening movement  of  which  it  is  fair 
to  say  with  reasonable  modesty  it  is 
the  exponent,  there  being  no  other  pe- 
riodical for  the  general  public  exclusively 
devoted  to  the  trees,  shrubs,  flowers, 
and  vegetables  of  garden  making— both 
flower  and  vegetable. 

With  these  three  magazines  we  con- 
tented ourselves  until  the  beginning  of 
the  Great  War.     At  that  time  all  maga- 
zines were  discussing  the  need  of  closer 
cooperation    between   North   and   South 
America.     Some  banking  friend  remark- 
ing   upon    such    advice    in    the    World's 
Work  suggested  that  we  apply  the  advice 
to  our  own  business.     This  seemed  too 
reasonable  a   suggestion   to  ignore,   and 
within  a  month  or  two  we  had  started 
La  Revista  del  Miindo,  a  quarterly  some- 
what after  the  pattern  of  the  World's  Work 
printed  in  Spanish  for  circulation  in  Latin 
America.     This  was  well  enough  received 
to  encourage  us  in  the  Spring  of  19 19  to 
change  the  quarterly  into  a  monthly. 

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In  the  meanwhile,  the  all-fiction  maga- 
zine, Short  Stories,  devoted  entirely  to 
clean  stories  of  adventure  and  outdoor 
life,  which  we  used  to  print  for  others, 
came  under  the  editorial  and  business 
management  of  Doubleday,  Page  & 
Company  and  lately  our  ownership. 
So  now  we  have  a  harmonious  and  happy 
family  of  five  magazines. 

Through  them  all  we  hope  we  do  the 
public  a  service.  The  opportunities  and 
responsibilities  of  a  publisher  are  greater 
now  than  ever  before.  The  printed  word 
has  more  influence  over  more  people 
than  it  has  ever  had.  To  be  a  publisher 
is  somewhat  akin  to  holding  public  office 
— it  is  a  public  trust.  In  our  magazines 
and  in  our  books  we  hope  successfully  to 
distribute  the  ideas  of  authors  that 
record  and  stimulate  the  best  thought 
and  action  of  our  time. 

The  writings  of  such  men  as  Tennyson, 
Poe,  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  etc.,  were 
the  stimulators  and  exponents  of  the 
thoughts  that  pervaded  the  English- 
speaking  world  in  the  middle  of  the  last 
century.  Their  writings  are  permanent 
— as  firm  a  part  of  history  as  elections, 
battles,  and  mechanical  inventions. 
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We  believe  that  such  writers  as  Rud- 
yard  Kipling,  O.  Henry,  Booth  Tarking- 
ton.  and  Joseph  Conrad  bear  the  same 
relation   to  the  present.     It  has,   there- 


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fore,  been  one  of  the  continuous  pleasures 
of  the  twenty  years  of  Doubleday,  Page 
&  Company's  existence  to  be  the  means 
of  giving  Kipling's  work  to  the  public 
year  after  year.  "  The  Feet  of  the  Young 
Men"  gives  the  satisfaction  of  expression 
to  the  fundamental  yearning  for  adven- 
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ture  and  the  grip  of  the  wanderlust  that 
strikes  each  new  generation  of  the  red- 
blooded.  And  man\-  thousands  have 
read  in  "  if — "  the  essence  of  their  private 
struggle  in  the  last  four  years.  Kipling 
is  constantly  being  rediscovered,  now  as 
the  prophet  of  the  Great  War,  the  voice 
of  the  young  blood,  the  spirit  of  the 
"mandates"  ("The  White  Man's  Bur- 
den"). To  be  even  the  temporary  purveyor 
(happily  in  ever-increasing  quantities)  of  a 
fundamental  spirit  which  has  ever\'  prom- 
ise of  eternal  vitality  is  a  thing  which 
brings  much  comfort  and  satisfaction. 

As  for  the  practical  facts,  about  two 
million  copies  of  the  authorised  editions 
of  Mr.  Kipling's  books  have  been  sold. 
Of  the  unauthorized  editions  there  are  no 
figures  available. 

Happily,  also,  in  the  publishing  busi- 
ness one  is  not  confined  to  serving  one 
master  only.  We  have  had  also  the  jcn 
of  discovering  the  service  of  O.  Henrw 
Thousands  of  people  felt  the  power  and 
balm  of  his  sympathx'  before  we  ever 
published  a  book  of  his.  We  did  not 
discover  him  as  a  writer.  But  we  do  feel 
that  the  late  Harry  Peyton  Steger  when 
with  us  discovered  the  way  to  serve  O.  Hen- 

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ry  and  the  public  for  a  long  time  to  come. 

He  saw  with  clearness  and  conviction 
that  if  the  public  who  had  worshipped 
O.  Henry  as  a  magazine  writer  were  told 
that  they  could  live  with  O.  Henry  in 
book  form  the>'  would  eagerly  grasp  the 
opportunity  to  do  so.  Accordingly  every 
possible  scrap  of  O.  Henry's  writings  was 
collected  and  the  whole  was  presented 
to  the  public.  And  this  presentation 
proved  an  extraordinary  fact.  The  lim- 
itations of  commerce  would  not  allow  a 
publisher  to  spend  enough  on  one  book  of 
short  stories  collected  from  magazines 
to  reach  the  many  who  wanted  them. 
But  to  twelve  volumes  this  limitation 
did  not  appl\'.  Up  to  the  present  time 
about  4.100,000  copies  of  O.  Henry's 
books  have  gone  to  the  public. 

Moreover,  there  have  been  two  de  luxe 
editions  of  O.  Henry  published  in  addition 
to  the  biography  by  Dr.  C.  Alphonso 
Smith,  all  of  which  have  been  in  large 
demand.  In  the  Fall  of  1919  we  are 
publishing  a  new  volume  of  O.  Henry 
stories,  not  hitherto  issued  in  popular 
book  form  (it  is  in  one  de  luxe  edition) 
under  the  title  of  "Waifs  and  Strays." 
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the  most  diligent  O.  Henry  "specialists" 
until  a  year  or  so  ago,  as  well  as  a  quan- 
tity of  critical  and  biographical  material 
published  in  leading  magazines. 

The  modern  master  of  the  short  story 
has  found  his  place,  not  only  for  the  time 
being,  but  permanently,  for  O.  Henry, 
like  Kipling,  is  part  of  the  present  gene- 
ration's contribution  to  all  time. 

More  recently  we  have  brought  to- 
gether the  works  of  another  master, 
Joseph  Conrad,  and  again  the  cumula- 
tive process  has  had  its  result.  From  the 
time  of  the  publication  of  Mr.  Conrad's 
first  volumes  by  various  publishers  he 
was  known  and  loved  by  a  limited  number 
of  the  lovers  of  good  literature  who  have 
a  knack  of  ferreting  out  true  greatness 
even  in  obscure  places.  Yet  in  spite  of 
the  fact  that  Conrad  was  little  short  of 
a  fetish  with  these  people,  he  was  not 
known  to  the  great  body  of  the  public. 
Realizing  his  greatness,  and  having  on 
our  list  as  many  or  more  of  the  early 
Conrad  books  as  any  other  publishers, 
we  set  about  the  process  of  collection. 
Soon  all  the  Conrad  books  (with  one  or 
two  exceptions)  were  under  the  Double- 
day,  Page  &  Company  imprint  and  with 

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the  concentration  thus  afforded  it  was 
possible  to  undertake  a  campaign  which 
would  bring  the  great  Polish-English 
novelist  to  the  attention  of  his  potential 
public.  Thus  a  total  of  about  200,000 
copies  of  Conrad's  books  have  gone  to 
the  public  from  the  Country  Life  Press, 
and  his  position  rests  secure  with  the 
public  and  critics  alike  as  one  of  our 
greatest  hving  masters  of  prose. 

As  an  example  of  how  the  concentra- 
tion under  one  imprint  works,  it  may  be 
interesting  to  note  that  "  Lord  Jim,"  pub- 
lished in  1910,  is  still  actively  selling 
more  copies  every  month  now  than  it  did 
in  the  first  year  of  its  life,  and  "Chance," 
published  in  19 14,  which  has  sold  more 
than  20,000  copies,  still  keeps  our  presses 
busy  turning  out  new  editions.  Needless 
to  say,  "The  Arrow  of  Gold,"  acclaimed 
a  truly  great  literary  production,  was  a 
"best  seller"  during  the  first  year  of  its 
life. 

These  three  instances  are  enough  to 
picture  one  of  the  things  which  we  con- 
sider is  fundamental  in  the  publishing 
business:  a  close  cooperation  between 
author  and  publisher  for  a  long  cam- 
paign so  that  each  author  can  get  the 
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full  effect  of  the  cumulative  effort  of 
many  years'  work  by  the  same  organiza- 
tion. 

Gene  Stratton-Porter's  nature  books 
and  novels  of  mid-Western  life  are  an- 
other example  of  the  cumulative  effort 
of  author  and  publisher.  It  took  two 
years  or  more  of  patient  and  painstaking 
effort  to  bring  "  Freckles,"  Mrs.  Porter's 
first  novel,  to  the  attention  of  anything 
like  its  potential  public.  But  from  the 
time  it  was  really  discovered  it  accom- 
plished a  very  wide  popularitw  In  this 
country  about  one  million  copies  have 
been  sold,  while  the  total  sales  of  all  her 
books  in  America  is  something  more  than 
seven  million.  In  England  "Freckles" 
sold  nearlv  half  a  million  during  the  War. 
and  the  popularity  of  her  other  books 
there  has  been  on  a  similar  scale. 

This  author  has  been  called  the  great- 
est literary  missionar\'  of  the  time.  Cer- 
tainly she  has  encouraged  thousands  to 
read  who  were  not  readers  before.  More- 
over, her  work  according  to  the  same  critic 
makes  such  a  record  of  the  Middle  West 
both  of  human  manners  and  of  Nature's 
wonders  as  no  historian  a  hundred  years 
from  now  can  afford  to  ignore. 

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Mrs.  Porter's  Nature  books  (with 
which  she  invariably  alternates  her  nov- 
els) are  written  and  illustrated  with  the 
most  painstaking  care  for  every  point 
which  counts  so  much  in  the  observation 
and  recording  of  natural  phenomena. 
Indeed  she  spends  more  time  upon  the 
preparation  of  a  Nature  book  than  upon 
the  writing  of  a  novel,  for  in  addition 
to  the  writing  there  is  the  necessary  field 
work  and  photography.  In  these  matters 
.Mrs.  Porter  never  accepts  heresay,  al- 
ways making  her  own  investigations, 
pictures,  and  checking  up  every  detail  to 
insure  accuracy  and  authenticity. 

Booth  Tarkington  is  another  of  the 
Indiana  novelists  whose  pictures  of  Amer- 
ican life  and  manners  will  be  read  for 
generations  to  come.  Spoken  of  by  many 
as  our  leading  American  novelist  he  is 
equally  appreciated  by  the  wide  popular 
audience  and  b\'  the  smaller  and  more 
discriminating  class  who  can  only  enjoy 
a  story  of  literary  finish,  backed  by  sound 
philosophy  and  something  worth  saying. 

The  works  of  Stewart  Edward  White 
are  full  painted  pictures  of  the  West 
from  the  pen  of  a  man  who  comprehends 
and  can  express  life  in  the  open — whether 

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lumbering  in  Michigan  or  California, 
hunting  and  exploring  in  Africa,  or  camp- 
ing in  the  Rockies — perhaps  better  than 
any  other  man  writing  to-day. 

The  works  of  Ellen  Glasgow  are  ac- 
corded foremost  rank  in  American  liter- 
ature. Usually  set  in  the  South,  these 
books  are  inspiring  studies  of  American 
character  and  ideals. 

The  kindly  writings  of  David  Grayson 
reflect  a  whole  philosoph\'  of  life  which  is 
essentially  American,  and  as  applicable 
to  the  city  man  or  woman  as  to  the  dwell- 
ers in  the  country.  "  David  Grayson," 
some  one  has  written  us,  "is  a  writer 
trying  to  sow  ideas  and  cultivate  under- 
standings." The  wide  sale  of  his  books 
is  ample  testimony  to  the  author's  suc- 
cess, in  reviewing  "Hempfield"  the 
New  York  Times  suggested  that  the 
sub-title  of  the  book  should  be  changed 
from  "A  Novel"  to  "An  American 
Novel,"  "for  this  (book)  will  take  its 
place  among  the  group  of  novels  that 
are  really  American  through  and 
through." 

In  the  500  or  more  books  that  are  upon 
our  active  "  in  print"  lists  there  are  many 
other  books  of  fiction — such  as  those  of 
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Kathleen  Norris;  of  "Elizabeth,"  author 
of  "Christopher  and  Columbus,"  "The 
Caravaners,"  etc.;  Grace  S.  Richmond, 
etc. — which  we  are  as  proud  to  give 
the  public  as  we  are  proud  of  those 
mentioned  above.  These  typical  ex- 
amples are  enough,  however,  to  show 
something  of  the  opportunities,  respon- 
sibilities, and  pleasures  which  have  come 
to  us  in  the  past  and  which  we  hope  to 
continue  and  multiply. 

In  realms  other  than  fiction  similar  op- 
portunities arise  also. 

Obviously  any  publisher  who  takes  his 
profession  seriously  would  value  the 
chance  to  give  as  wide  a  distribution  as 
possible  to  Booker  Washington's  "  Up 
From  Slavery,"  Helen  Keller's  "Story  of 
My  Life,"  Dr.  Trudeau's  "An  Autobiog- 
raphy." Such  books  are  records  of  some 
of  the  great  human  struggles  of  our  time. 

Frank  H.  Simonds's  five-volume  his- 
tory of  the  Great  War,  which  we  have 
been  bringing  out  volume  by  volume  for 
the  past  four  years,  is  an  enterprise  of 
considerable  magnitude  with  which  we  are 
proud  to  be  associated.  Already  the 
first  three  volumes  have  attained  wide 
distribution. 

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"The  Life  of  J.  J.  Hill"  is  one  of  the 
great  constructive  chapters  of  our  his- 
tory. Ambassador  Morgenthau's  story 
of  the  war  in  Constantinople  and  Hugh 
Gibson's  "  Diary  of  Our  Legation  in  Bel- 
gium," and  the  forthcoming  book  by  Ad- 
miral Sims  on  "The  Victory  at  Sea  "are  the 
records  of  which  world  history  are  made. 

In  somewhat  less  dramatic  fields  but 
still  an  important  part  of  a  serious  pub- 
lisher's business  are  such  sets  as  the 
Nature  Library  and  the  Farm  Knowl- 
edge— books  which  are  created  with 
infinite  care  and  at  great  expense  to 
furnish  information  and  inspiration  in 
Nature  study  and  in  farming. 

If,  perhaps,  publishing  has  never  pro- 
duced so  far  the  riches  which  go  with 
great  trades  in  automobiles,  steel,  oil, 
cotton  mills  and  like  enterprises,  the 
reader  of  this  little  record  will  see  reasons 
why  we  none  the  less  do  not  envy  other 
callings,  for  the  opportunity  to  further 
great  ideas  is  a  recompense  in  itself. 


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been  enough  to  full\'  complete  our  plant- 
ing schemes,  and  the  jo\'  of  develop- 
ment is  still  ours. 

Eighteen  acres  is  the  size  of  the  plot 
on  which  the  Country  Life  Press  building 
stands.  Connected  with  it  are  two  other 
plots  of  sixteen  acres  and  five  and  one- 
half  acres.  The  "home"  plot  has  been 
developed  as  a  garden  in  framing  the 
building  itself.  The  treatment,  follow- 
ing the  even  flatness  of  the  location,  is 
a  development  on  broad  open  stretches 
with  wide  vistas  and  ample  space  for 
entrance  driveways,  the  two  miles  of 
walks,  etc. 

The  seven-eighths  of  an  acre,  approxi- 
mately, enclosed  by  the  three  wings  of 
the    building,    and    through    which    the 

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approach  to  the  main  entrance  leads,  is 
treated  as  a  spacious  forecourt  in  harmony 
with  the  architectural  t>'pe  of  the  build- 
ing. This  forecourt  is  divided  in  two 
even  sections  by  a  broad  walk  in  old  red 
brick;  and  each  half  of  the  court  has  a 
central  pool,  thirty  feet  in  diameter, 
supporting  an  elevated  basin  and  foun- 
tain where  water  pla)S  continuously, 
giving  the  desired  feeling  of  joyous  ac- 
tivity that  is  associated  with  playing 
water. 


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A  MODEST  PRIMROSE   BY  THE  PATH 

Four  quadrilaterals  surrounding  the 
fountain  give  space,  each  one  with  a 
central  area  of  fine  lawn  enframed  by 
ample  borders  of  herbaceous  plants,  and 
here  and  there  rare,  low-growing  ever- 
greens and  a  few  dwarf  deciduous  flower- 
ing shrubs.  The  herbaceous  collection 
occupying  these  borders  is  planted  with 
informal  regularity  so  as  to  permit  the 
natural  development  of  the  individual 
plants  in  companionable  masses,  and  the 
whole  is  designed  on  a  scheme  to  give 
something  in  flower  throughout  the 
longest    possible    period    of    the    year. 

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Beginning  with  the  Snowdrops,  the 
whole  gamut  of  season  and  color  is  run, 
till  the  outpost  frosts  of  late  fall  ring  the 
tocsin  on  the  hardy  Chrysanthemum 
and  a  few  other  late  lingerers. 

Facing  the  building  and  the  wall  that 


LOOKING     ACROSS      THL       PHONY 
BORDER  TOWARD  THE  ROSE  ARBOR 

frames  the  west  end  of  the  court  is  a 
border  devoted  to  a  collection  of  named 
H\'brid  Rhododendrons,  specimen  Azalea 
Hinodigeri,  Laurel  or  Kalmia,  Pieris 
(Andromeda),  Leucothoe,  etc.  And,  as 
an  edging  to  the  main  lines,  the  Japanese 
Mountain  Spurge  (Pachysandra)  is  freely 


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used   because   of   its    welcome   green    in 
winter. 

Looking  from  the  building  the  sub- 
joined near-by  stretches  of  wide  lawn 
support  a  few  specimen  evergreens  of 
quality  such  as  the  Chinese  Short-leaved 


THE     ROSE      GARDEN     AND     ITS 
BOUNDARY  WALL  OF  CLIMBERS 


Fir  and  thejapanese  Umbrella  Pine.  Here, 
also,  will  be  found  an  unusual  specimen, 
in  perfect  tree-like  form,  of  the  rare 
native  Gordonia  Altamaha  the  habitat 
of  which  has  never  been  rediscovered 
since  Bartram  collected  it,  in  Georgia, 
which   here   seems   to  endure   the   most 

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rigorous  winters,  and  flowers  freely  every 
year,  producing  its  blossoms  through 
September  and  October  until  frost  calls 
a  halt.  Another  tree  of  interesting  his- 
tory is  the  Ginkgo — a  prehistoric  relic 
known  mostly  as  a  temple  tree  in  China 
until  the  last  few  years. 

Equally  attractive  in  the  late  fall  are 
specimens  of  the  Fire  or  Evergreen  Thorn 
(Pyracantha  Lalandi),  which  here  fruits 
in  profusion  and  has  been  described  by 
qualified  authorities  such  as  Professor 
Sargent,  IVlr.  E.  H.  Wilson,  and  Mr. 
Theodore  Havemeyer  as  one  of  the  most 
unusual  horticultural  sights  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  New  York. 

Less  conspicuous  but  no  less  worth}', 
but  as  yet  too  small  to  give  much  of  an 
account  of  itself,  is  the  Mount  Taurus 
type  of  the  Cedar  of  Lebanon  which  we 
hope  may  be  a  worth}'  object  of  venera- 
tion in  the  years  to  come.  This  partic- 
ular type  has  proved  absolutely  hardy 
in  the  Arnold  Arboretum  near  Boston. 

Immediately  south  of  the  building  is 
the  latest  development  of  the  Country 
Life  Press  Gardens  which  we  are  pleased 
to  call,  for  identification,  the  South 
Park.      This      occupies      approximately 

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ONE  OF  OUR  EVERGREEN  THORNS 
IN      ITS      JUNE       BLOSSOMING 


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three  acres,  and  the  soil  has  been  grad- 
ually built  up,  by  interesting  soil-build- 
ing experiments  in  the  use  of  green  cover 
crops,  from  bare,  unresponsive  sand  and 
gravel  to  a  fertile  piece  of  land — which, 
this  year,  191 9,  has  been  given  over  to 
its  permanent  object.  Here  is  being 
formed  a  miniature  "  Arboretum  "^ — that 
is  to  say,  a  collection  of  trees  and  shrubs, 
hard-wooded  plants  of  rarity,  novelty, 
or  meritorious  character.  Many  of  these 
— the  majority  indeed — hardly  as  yet 
have  found  their  way  into  the  channels 
of  ordinary  commerce.  This  feature 
of  the  gardens  will  be  permanently  de- 
veloped along  these  lines  with  the  thought 
of  demonstrating  to  our  visitors  some  of 
the  more  note-worthy  introductions  from 
abroad,  particularly  of  the  newer  dis- 
coveries in  China.  Already  there  are 
to  be  seen  among  other  things  collections 
of  new  Berberis,  of  Cotoneasters,  of 
Spiraeas,  of  Bush  Honeysuckles,  some 
Rose  species.  Poplars,  Cherries,  and  a 
selection  of  native  Hawthorns. 

Bordering  this  park  on  the  east  is  a 
winding  walk  which  is  destined,  ulti- 
mately, to  be  developed  as  a  displa\' 
ground  for  the  American  Flower  Garden; 

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UNDER  THE  ROSE  ARBOR 


exhibiting  in  broad,  naturalized  masses 
the  conspicuous,  showy  plants  of  our 
own  land — a  plan  only  just  conceived, 
and  as  yet  hardly  taking  shape. 

Our  more  conventionally  minded  visi- 
tors will  fmd  in  the  Rose  Garden,  framed 

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by  its  rustic  pergola  of  Red  Cedar,  a 
demonstration  collection  of  Hybrid  Roses, 
which  carry  the  season  of  bloom  into  well 
past  mid-summer. 

For  the  specialist  there  are  other  ob- 
jects of  interest.  For  instance,  the  Bok 
collection  of  German  Iris  presented  to 
the  Country  Life  Press  by  Mr.  Edward 
Bok,  of  Philadelphia,  comprises  more 
than  two  hundred  varieties  of  the  most 
typical  groups  of  the  germanica  Irises. 

The  pool,  entirely  enclosed  in  tall 
cedars,  forms  a  green  winter  outdoor 
room  quite  original  and  Italian  in  effect. 
It  is  at  the  northerly  end  of  a  long  path- 
way which  to  the  south  runs  through  the 
cedar  room  where  stands  a  big  Printers' 
Sun  Dial,  showing  the  printers'  marks  of 
the  first  hundred  \ears  of  the  art.  This 
sun  dial  was  designed  by  a  friend,  Mr. 
Walter  Gilliss,  and  is  described  by  him 
elsewhere  in  this  booklet. 

Then  the  Peony  collection  flanking 
two  sides  of  a  walk  about  two  hundred 
and  fifty  feet  in  length  embraces  what 
was  the  collection  of  about  two  hundred 
and  fifty  varieties  established  by  the 
American  Peony  Society  in  its  trial 
grounds   at    Cornell    Universit\-.     When 


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that  test  collection  was  being  broken  up 
the  Country  Life  Press  acquired  posses- 
sion of  these  interesting  specimens  b\' 
purchase.  The  plants  are  well  estab- 
lished, and  each  year  flower  in  profusion. 
Since  the  original  purchase  a  few  modern 
additions  have  been  made  including  some 
of  the  Brand  Peonies  from  the  West. 

Beyond  the  Peony  collection  and  at 
the  extreme  end  of  the  Country  Life 
Press  grounds  is  a  small  but  very  effec- 
tive and  interesting  collection  of  rock 
and  alpine  plants  set  in  suitable  sur- 
roundings. Here  there  have  been  estab- 
lished nearly  three  hundred  varieties  of 
those  intriguing  little  jewels  that  would  be 
lost  if  set  in  larger  and  broader  treat- 
ment elsewhere. 

In  connection  with  these  permanent 
features  there  are  annual  demonstration 
gardens  in  the  ordinar\'  culinary  crops 
that  also  supply  the  dining  rooms  of  the 
Press  with  fresh  vegetables  and  small 
fruits. 


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The  evergreen  garden  is  given  a  sepa- 
rate paragraph  because  it  is  something 
different  and  apart  from  the  other  fea- 
tures of  the  grounds.  Here  arranged  in 
balanced  harmony  in  beds  of  geometric 
form,  the  whole  enclosed  by  a  hedge  of 
Hemlock,  will  be  found  a  demonstration 
collection  of  coniferous  evergreens  of  un- 
usual interest  and  merit,  together  with 
a  few  of  the  broad-leaved  plants. 

The  components  of  this  collection 
change  from  time  to  time  as  perfection 
in  selection  is  striven  for.     Many  plants 


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A  CORNER  OF  THE   EVERGREEN   (,.\KI)1  N, 
WITH     ITS     NEWLY     BOX-EDGED     PATHS 


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that  have  been  set  out  here  have  refused 
to  endure  the  trying  conditions  of  the 
American  winter.  Their  places  are  being 
filled  by  other  plants  of  different  char- 
acter, with  the  intimate  object  of  build- 
ing up  in  this  evergreen  garden  a  col- 
lection of  ornamental  evergreens  thor- 
oughl>'  adapted  to  the  climate  of  the 
region.  Not  only  are  the  ordinary  pop- 
ular evergreens  to  be  found  here  but 
numerous  others;  especially  dwarf  forms 
of  various  species  including  a  collection 
of  the  latest  Chinese  discoveries  of  both 
iMr.  E.  H.  Wilson  and  H.  Meyer. 

The  design  of  this  evergreen  garden 
is  based  on  the  conventional  plan  of  a 
well  known  rose  garden  in  Europe.  The 
grass  walk  enables  the  visitor  to  wander 
about  from  plant  to  plant  and  familiarize 
himself  with  the  different  species  and 
varieties  of  which  there  are  in  all  some- 
where in  the  neighborhood  of  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  distinct  kinds. 

If  the  reader  has  had  the  patience  to 
follow  our  observations  as  far  as  this  we 
feel  sure  of  his  good-will,  for  nothing 
but  friendliness  and  courtesy  would  have 
kept  him  reading  so  long,  and  we  hope 
he  will   bear  with   us  for  the  personal 

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character  of  these  pages,  wish  us  all  he 
finds  it  in  his  heart  to  feel  for  our  plans 
and  aims,  and  when  opportunity  serves 
visit  us  at  Garden  City  where  he  will  be 
made  most  welcome.  Guides  who  will 
show  visitors  through  the  plant  and 
grounds  are  always  at  your  service. 


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THE 
BUILDING 


IS  not  our  intention  to 
weary  the  reader  with  a 
description  of  the  pro- 
cesses which  are  followed 
to  make  either  a  book  or 
a  magazine,  and  yet  a  few 
words  about  the  building  and  its  equip- 
ment may  not  be  amiss.  The  machinery 
is  of  the  newest  type,  little  having  been 
brought  from  the  old  plant  in  New  York. 


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WHERE  TYPE  IS  SET  BY  HAND 

The  arrangement  of  the  building  for  hand- 
ling the  books  and  magazines  was  most 
important.    It  has  interested  some  friends 


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AN   AISLE   IN  THE   PRESS   ROOM 

to  note  that  the  paper  comes  from  the 
freight  cars  direct!}-  on  the  second  floor 
into  the  press  room,  and  goes  to  the  cars 


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IN  THE   BOOK  BINDERS 


as  a  finished  product  at  the  south  end, 
in  a  straight  Hne  of  manufacturing  pro- 
cesses and  on  a  single  level,  overcoming 
the  expense,  delay,  and  spoilage  caused  by 
lifting  the  printed  sheets  from  floor  to 
floor  by  elevators.  On  the  third  floor, 
besides  the  offices,  art  departments,  edi- 
torial departments  for  books  and  maga- 
zines, subscription  department,  cashier's 
office,  etc.,  etc.,  is  the  large  composing 
room,  and  in  separate  and  roomy  apart- 
ments, but  opening  into  the  main  room, 
are  the  type-setting  machinery  (Lanston) 
department  and  the  electrotype  foundry. 
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BINDING  MAGAZINES  TO  OPEN  FLAT 

A  rather  unusual  feature  of  the  Coun- 
try Life  Press  is  that  the  manufacturing 
departments  have  all  been  started  well- 
grown — we  hope  not  yet  full-grown — 
but  arranged  as  a  new  proposition  (in- 
stead of  an  old  one  built  piecemeal)  and 
so  planned  that  the  plant  may  be  in- 
creased if  occasion  demands  (which  we 
hope  it  will)  to  three  times  the  present 
capacity  without  displacing  the  practical 
course  of  efficient,  continuous  operation 
now  being  carried  out,  and  so  arranged 
that  other  buildings  can  be  added  with- 
out interfering  with  the  plan  of  manu- 

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facturing.  To  those  interested  the 
Country  Life  Press  shows  the  problem 
worked  out  in  one  structural  operation. 

The  architects  have  tried  also  to  make 
the  building  attractive,  although  held 
down  by  the  necessity  of  the  most  ad- 
vantageous working  conditions.  There 
is  practically  no  spot  as  much  as  forty 
feet  from  a  window:  there  is  no  lack  of 
abundant  light  on  even  the  lowest  of  the 
three  floors. 

If  figures  are  of  interest  it  may  be  said 
that  the  Country  Life  Press  is  more 
than  450  feet  long,  the  wings  200  feet 
in  depth,  thus  making  the  court,  already 
described,  in  the  front  of  the  building. 
Inside  the  building  there  are  250  miles 
of  piping  and  200  miles  of  electric  wire, 
and  more  than  a  mile  and  a  half  of  curtain 
fabric  a  }ard  wide  was  used  at  the  win- 
dows. We  have  intended  to  miss  no 
good  thing  needed  for  comfortable  and 
efficient  working;  the  plumbing  is  ade- 
quate and  of  a  high  standard,  a  vacuum 
cleaner  with  an  outlet  every  73  feet 
throughout  the  entire  building  makes 
it  possible  to  take  all  dust  from  floors 
and  machiner)'  every  night.  The  ven- 
tilation  is   ample,  and  there  are  dining 


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rooms  and  kitchens,  and  the  vacuum  sys- 
tem of  steam  heating  from  the  engine  ex- 
haust. Many  thousand  gallons  of  water 
an  hour  are  pumped  from  our  own  wells; 
plent>'  for  building  and  grounds,  pool  and 


THE  MACHINE  THAT  ASSEMBLES  SUCCESSIVE 
PARTS     OF    MAGAZINE    OR     BOOK     IN    ORDER 


fountains,  as  well  as  for  the  gardens,  and 
the  air  pressure  tanks  in  the  ground  keep 
the  water  cool  for  drinking. 

As  the  structure  is  of  steel  and  concrete 
it  is  entireK'  fireproof,  the  insurance  being 
about  one  thirtieth  of  the  rate  formerly 
paid  in  New  York.  A  complete  "sprink- 
ling system"  helps  to  make  us  feel  free  of 
fire  dread. 

The  library,  overlooking  the  court,  is  a 


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room  of  considerable  size,  done  in  Caen 
stone  and  red  gum  panelling.  Set  into 
the  middle  of  the  mantel  is  the  bronze 
tablet  herein  reproduced, which  rightly  has 
the  place  of  honor  in  the  whole  building. 
This  tablet  was  presented  to  the  firm  of 
Doubleday,  Page  Sc  Company  by  their 
co-workers  on  the  tenth  anniversary  of  the 
founding  of  their  business. 


U  L  R   a  i  A  1  i  o  .\ 


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THE  SUN  DIAL 

BY    WALTER    GILLISS 


dedicated 

to  that  f.4ir  art  which  doth  allow 

man's  mind 

to  fix  its  thought  upon  the  virgin  page 

and  so  transmit  itself 

from  age  to  age 


^  the  southerly  end  of  the 
garden  of  the  Country 
Life  Press,  where  the  path 
which  leads  down  from 
the  Italian  Pool  enters  a 
special  "cedar  room" — 
there  has  been  placed  a  Sun  Dial. 

It  was  about  February,  1910,  that  a 
representative  of  Messrs.  Doubleday, 
Page  &  Company  called  upon  the  writer 
and  expressed  their  desire  that  a  table 
be  designed  bearing  the  marks  of  early 
printers.     It  was  finally  decided  that  this 

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table  should  be  made  in  the  form  of  a 
Sun  Dial  to  be  placed  in  the  garden. 

In  casting  about  for  a  central  feature 
for  the  Dial  nothing  seemed  so  fitting  as 
an  open  book;  and  of  books  there  seemed 
to  be  but  one  to  be  desired  above  all 
others  —  the  Bible  of  Fort)'-two  Lines, 
printed  by  Gutenberg  at  Mainz  in  1455; 
a  book  preeminent  not  only  because  the 
"Book  of  Books,"  but  by  reason  of  its 
being  the  first  printed  book,  and  one 
which,  after  nearly  half  a  thousand  years, 
with  its  noble  t>'pe,  ample  margins  and 
brilliant  black  ink,  stands  out  as  one  of 
the  best  examples  of  bookmaking  in  ex- 
istence to-day. 

The  writer  had  the  good  fortune  of 
seeing  a  vellum  copy  of  this  great  book 
in  the  library  of  the  late  Robert  Hoe 
many  years  ago  and  the  recollection  of  it 
remained,  and  it  was  this  particular  cop\' 
of  the  Bible,  which,  having  been  acquired 
b\'  Mr.  Henry  E.  Huntington  for  ^50,000 
(a  sum  greater  than  ever  before  paid  for 
a  printed  book)  was,  on  a  da>'  in  June, 
191 1,  taken  to  the  roof  of  the  Metropoli- 
tan Club  of  New  York,  where,  with  the 
kindly  assistance  of  Mr.  Huntington,  the 
large  size  negatives  were  made  from  which 

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THE  DIAL  IN   ITS  CEDAR  ROOM 

the  Bible  plate  resulted,  and  by  means  of 
which  many  who  may  never  have  an 
opportunity  of  seeing  this  noble  book, 
may  see  a  faithful  reproduction  of  it  in 
brass,  even  to  the  illumination  —  in  the 
exact  size  of  the  original. 


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The  form  of  the  Dial  is  that  of  a  41- 
degree  elHpse,  65IX78J  inches;  this  form, 
as  well  as  the  unusuall}'  large  size  having 
been  determined  by  the  dimensions  of 
the  Bible,  which  lies  open  at  the  nine- 
teenth chapter  of  the  Book  of  Job  —  that 
great  chapter  in  which  he  speaks  of  the 
immortality  of  the  soul— the  twent\- 
third  verse  of  which,  in  the  English  trans- 
lation, reads: 

"Oh  that  my  words  were  now  written! 
oh  that  they  were  printed  in  a  book" 

Above,  and  at  the  sides  of  the  Bible, 
are  twelve  hour-spaces  bearing  the  marks 
of  twelve  of  the  early  printers,  so  dis- 
posed, that  at  noon,  the  shadow  rests 
full  across  the  centre  of  the  Bible,  and 
passes  first  over  the  earliest  of  all  printers' 
marks  —  that  of  Fust  and  SchoeflFer. 

Below  the  Bible,  in  the  lower  section 
of  the  oval,  appears  the  inscription: 

O  measure  of  time! 
Thou  merest  mite  within  the  endless 

providence  of  God 

May  thy  unerring  finger  ever  point 

To  those  who  printed  first 

the  written  word. 


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The  Dial  was  planned  to  cover  only 
the  first  century  of  the  Art  of  Printing 
(1455-1555)  from  Gutenberg  to  Plantin; 
Gutenberg,  who  used  no  mark,  being 
represented  by  his  famous  Bible. 


THE  FACE  OF  THE  DIAL 

The  marks  selected  were  chosen  as 
being  the  first  to  appear  in  each  of  the 
several  countries  into  which  the  Art  of 
Printing  made  its  way  at  a  very  early 
date,  or  because  of  the  distinguished 
place  attained  by  the  printer,  either 
by  reason  of  exceptional  skill  as  a  printer, 
or  because  of  some  other  successful 
achievement. 

Owing  to  the  variation  in  the  size  as 
well  as  the  character  of  the  marks  they 

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v^l 


m 


were  so  arranged  as  to  secure  a  harmoni- 
ous and  well  balanced  design,  the  chrono- 
logical order  being  disregarded  except  as 
to  the  first  and  last. 

Counting  from  the  noon  hour,  they 
are  arranged  in  the  following  order: 

I.       FUST    &    SCHOEFFER,     I457 

Fust  &  SchoeflFer  were  the  successors 
of  Gutenberg  and  printers  of  the  "  Psalter 
of  1457."  This  book,  at  least  as  rare  as 
the  Bible  of  Forty-two  Lines,  is  the  first 
book  in  which  a  printer's  mark  appeared, 
and  the  first  book  bearing  a  printed  date. 

II.       BERNARDINUS      DE     VITALIBUS,      I494 

This  device  is  more  decorative  and 
more  carefully  engraved  than  most  of 
the  marks  of  the  time.  It  was  taken 
from  an  edition  of  Caesar's  Commentaries, 
printed  at  Venice  in  15 17  from  Roman 
types  (similar  to  those  used  by  Jenson). 

III.       HANS    &    PAUL    HURUS,     I488 

This  mark  has  the  distinction  of  being 
the  first  Spanish  printer's  mark.  The 
brothers  Hurus  were  associated  together 
in  Saragossa  from  1488  until  1490,  and 
it  was  in  an  edition  of  the  "  Royal  Or- 


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dinances  of  Castille,"  printed  by  them 
in  Saragossa  in  1490,  that  the  mark  first 
appeared. 

IV.     ALDUS,   1494 

Not  onl>'  as  printer,  but  as  editor  and 
publisher,  Aldus  Manutius  stands  pre- 
eminent among  Italian  printers.  His 
works  are  to  be  found  in  innumerable 
libraries  to-day,  and  his  mark  of  the 
anchor  and  dolphin,  known  throughout 
the  world,  has  been  adopted  in  var}ing 
form.,  b)-  many  printers,  from  his  own 
time  to  the  present  day.  Pickering  used 
it  with  the  legend,  "  Aldi  Anglus  Discip." 

Aldus's  attainments  were  such  that 
he  gained  the  friendship  of  the  ablest 
scholars  of  his  time,  who  aided  him  in  his 
work;  and  he  also  numbered  among 
his  friends  Jean  Grolier  —  one  of  the 
greatest  patrons  of  printing  and  binding. 

1 1  was  Aldus  who  gave  to  the  world  that 
distinctive  t>pe  —  now  known  as  Italic 
—  which  was  fashioned  after  the  beauti- 
fully formed  characters  of  the  hand- 
writing of  the  poet  Petrarch. 

Although  Aldus  began  printing  in 
1494,  his  mark  was  not  adopted  until 
1502.     Many  authorities  claim  that  the 

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mark    first    appeared    in    the    "Statius'' 
of  1502,  the  imprint  of  which  reads: 

VENETIIS    IN    AEDIBUS 

ALDE    MENDE    AV 

GUSTO    M    DII 

Aldus  died  in  1515,  in  comparative 
poverty.  Mr.  De  Vinne  says  of  him, 
''he  had  the  money-getting  but  not  the 
money-keeping  faculty.  Whether  he  sold 
folios  at  high  price  or  octavos  at  low  price, 
the  result  was  the  same.  Directly  or 
indirectly,  he  gave  to  the  book  buyer 
quite  as  much  as  he  received.'' 

V.     jENSON,   1471 

One  of  the  most  noted  of  the  Venetian 
printers,  and  the  first  to  use  Roman 
types  was  Nicolas  Jenson. 

The  Jenson  mark,  a  sphere  surmounted 
by  a  double  cross,  which  has  been  inter- 
preted to  symbolize  the  world  and  its 
Christian  rulership,  was  often  used 
throughout  Italy  subsequent  to  its  adop- 
tion by  him.  The  writer  has,  in  fact, 
found  upward  of  seventy  variations  of 
the  Jenson  mark  which  were  used  in 
Italy  between  1481  and  1525 — in  many 
cases  the  initials  of  the  printer  appearing 
within  the  circle. 

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The  double  cross  is  also  found  in  some 
Spanish,  French,  and  other  marks. 

VI.     CAXTON,   1477 

William  Caxton,  the  first  and  greatest 
of  the  English  printers  exercised  his  art 
at  Westminster,  1477-1491.  He  was 
born  about  1422,  was  apprenticed  to  a 
merchant  and  afterward  went  to  Bruges. 

From  a  little  volume  entitled  "The 
Story  of  Books,''  by  Gertrude  Burford 
Rawlings,  I  quote:  "Where  Caxton  gain- 
ed his  knowledge  of  printing  is  a  matter 
of  dispute.  Mr.  Blades  holds  that  he 
was  taught  by  Colard  Mansion,  the  first 
printer  of  Bruges,  others  that  he  learned 
at  Cologne.'' 

The  first  book  printed  by  Caxton, 
probably  at  Bruges,  is  "The  Recuyell  of 
the  Historyes  of  Troye,"  about  1475, 
and  it  is  the  first  book  printed  in  the 
English  language,  and  was  followed  by 
"Ye  Game  and  Playe  of  Chesse,"  now 
thought  to  have  been  printed  at  Bruges. 

Caxton  returned  to  England  about 
1476.  He  began  to  print  at  Westminster 
in  1477,  but  it  was  not  until  later  that 
he  used  a  mark.  Roberts,  claims  that 
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in  the  second  folio  edition  of  the  Sarum 
"Ordinale."  The  exact  meaning  of  the 
monogram  in  Caxton's  mark  is  not  known, 
but  it  is  generall\-  beHeved  to  stand  for 
W.  C.  74.  Blades  believes  that  it  refers 
to  the  date  of  printing  of  "The  Recuyell 
of  the  Historyes  of  Troye"  —  the  first 
product  of  Caxton's  typographical  skill. 

VII.       WYNKYN    DE    WORDE,     1 49 1 

On  the  death  of  Caxton  in  1491, 
\\'}'nkyn  de  W'orde,  a  native  of  Holland 
and  for  a  long  time  Caxton's  assistant, 
succeeded  him  and  continued  to  print 
at  Westminster,  and  from  his  presses 
came  man\'  books  which  were  noted  for 
their  typographical  excellence. 

De  Worde  printed  among  other  works 
an  edition  of  the  "Golden  Legend"  the 
vellum  edition  of  which  printed  b\-  Wil- 
liam Morris  is  one  of  the  noblest  examples 
of  nineteenth  century  printing. 

VIII.       THE    ST.    ALBANS    PRINTER,     I480 

It  is  the  printing  of  the  "Book  of  St. 
Albans"  which  has  made  famous  its 
printer,  who  is  referred  to  by  Wynkyn 
de  Worde  as  a  "Schoolmaster  of  St. 
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treatises  on  Hawking,  Hunting,  and 
Coat-Armor  was  printed  at  St.  Albans 
in  i486.  The  second  edition,  printed 
by  Wynkyn  de  Worde  at  Westminster 
in  1496,  contained,  also,  "The  Treatyse 
of  Fysshynge  with  an  Angle." 

IX.       THIERRY    MARTENS,     1 474 

Martens,  referred  to  as  Erasmus's 
printer  appears  first  as  having  been 
associated  with  John  of  Paderborn, 
in  Alost,  a  town  near  Brussels  in  1473. 
He  set  up  his  first  press  in  Alost  in  1474, 
and  continued  to  print  there  for  about 
two  years.  In  1477  he  went  to  Spain, 
where  the  earliest  ro\al  decree  known 
to  exist  regarding  the  art  of  printing  in 
Europe  was  issued  for  his  benefit  by 
Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  under  date  of 
December  25,  1477.  The  mark  of  Mar- 
tens (a  double  anchor)  has,  seemingly, 
never  been  imitated. 

X.       GUILLAUME    LE    ROUGE,     I489 

Probabl)'  the  son  of  Pierre  le  Rouge, 
Guillaume  le  Rouge,  not  unnaturall\- 
practised  the  same  art.  His  first  press 
was  at  Chablis,  where-in  1489  he  printed 
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fais/'  from  a  copy  of  which  the  mark 
was  reproduced.  Three  years  later,  he 
printed  at  Troves,  and  finally  established 
himself  at  Paris. 

XI.       GERING    &    REMBOLT,     I47O 

|-^  The  first   book  printed  in   Paris  was 

'^Hr  printed  by  Ulrich  Gering,  Michel  Fri- 
burger  and  Martin  Krantz,  three  Ger- 
mans who  had  been  brought  to  Paris 
from  Mainz  by  Jean  Heinlin  de  La 
Pierre  and  Guillaume  Fichet,  two  pro- 
fessors of  the  Sorbonne,  where  the  first 
press  was  set  up.  A  second  press  was 
set  up  at  the  "Soleil  d'Or''  in  1473. 
Gering  was  left  alone  in  1477.  In  1494 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Bertold 
Rembolt  and  it  was  during  this  partner- 
ship (which  continued  until  1509),  that 
they  used  the  mark  —  which  had  pre- 
viously been  used  by  Rembolt  alone. 

XIL       PLANTIN,        1555 

Closing  the  century  we  come  to  Chris- 
topher Plantin  who  began  his  work  in 
Antwerp  in  1555.  Plantin  is  justly 
esteemed  one  of  the  greatest  of  the  early 
printers.  He  was  great  in  his  concep- 
tions; great   in   his  work   and   great   in 

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being  the  only  one  of  the  early  printers 
whose  "office"  with  its  matrices  and 
molds,  and  types,  and  its  woodcuts,  and 
copperplates,  and  presses  continued  in 
his  family  in  an  unbroken  line  of  descent 
for  more  than  a  quarter-thousand  years 
—  and  now,  as  a  museum,  stands  as  one 
of  the  greatest  attractions  of  Antwerp. 
Plantin  planned  and  produced  the  Poly- 
glot Bible  —  a  great  folio  in  eight  volumes 
printed  in  Hebrew,  Chaldaic,  Greek,  and 
Latin  —  in  fine,  double-column  pages. 
Although  brought  to  the  verge  of  ruin 
by  this  great  project,  the  monopoly  of 
the  printing  of  the  service  books  and 
Bibles  for  the  use  of  the  Roman  Church 
in  Spain  and  its  dependencies  in  course 
of  time  restored  his  fortunes,  and  main- 
tained the  fortunes  of  his  successors  for 
many  years. 

THE    CONSTRUCTION   OF   THE   DIAL 

The  pedestal  of  the  Dial,  designed  by 
Mr.  John  H.  Petit,  the  architect  of  The 
Country  Life  Press,  is  of  concrete,  carried 
three  and  a  half  feet  below  the  surface 
of  the  ground,  so  as  to  be  below  the  frost 
line.  The  rim  of  the  dial  is  of  brass, 
cast  by  the  John  Williams  Company,  Inc. 

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Within  the  rim  of  brass  an  iron  bottom 
is  securely  fastened,  and,  by  means  of 
"lugs"  this  iron  bottom  is  anchored  into 
the  pedestal  so  that  the  Dial  from  its 
face  to  the  bottom  of  the  pedestal  is 
one  solid  construction  and  should  outlast 
many  generations. 

The  face  of  the  Dial  is  of  cement  with 
inlays  of  brass;  each  fastened  by  "lugs" 
and  screws  to  the  iron  bottom  of  the  rim, 
over  which  there  is  a  la>'er  of  rough 
cement  three  inches  in  thickness  faced 
with  white  cement,  in  which  the  brasses 
are  inserted.  These  brasses  were  made  by 
the  engraving  department  of  The  Country 
Life  Press.  The  lettering  of  the  Bible 
is  filled  in  with  a  composition,  said  by 
Mr.  de  Kosenko,  of  the  Sterling  Bronze 
Co.,  to  be  the  same  as  that  used  in  the 
memorial  brasses  in  Westminster  Abbe\-, 
and  burnt  in,  and  also  burnt  a  second 
time  after  the  retouches  were  made  upon 
the  capitals. 

Naturally  the  time-telling  attributes  of 
the  dial  are  scientificall}'  accurate  —  but 
it  takes  no  account  of  "daylight-saving." 

It  is  hoped  that  those  who  come  to 
view  this  Dial  may  come  but  to  view 
and  not  to  harm,  that  the  Bible  which 
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lies  open  upon  its  face  may  remain 
through  the  years  to  come,  a.>  it  ever 
has  been  since  the  invention  ot  the  Art 
of  Printing  -  an  open  book  for  the  edi- 
fication of  the  people,  and  the  greatest 
of  forces  for  the  regeneration  of  the  world. 


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PAGEcScCO.'S 
BOOK  SHOPS 


TN  THECityof  New  York 
Doubleday,  Page  &  Com- 
pany are  at  this  time  con- 
ducting three  retail  book 
shops  where  our  own  and 
the  books  of  other  pub- 
Hshers  are  offered  for  sale  in  attractive 
and  convenient  quarters.  Each  of  these 
shops  is  in  a  distinct  neighborhood,  where 
it  serves  a  community  need. 

The  shop  in  the  Pennsylvania  Terminal 
Arcade,  which  is  a  continuance  of  32nd 
Street  at  7th  Avenue,  serves  the  traveler 
who  fmds  in  his  journey  an  opportunity 
to  read.  It  serves  too,  the  commuter, 
who,  by  experience,  has  found  it  well 
equipped  with  books  of  every  description. 
He  has  become  accustomed  to  buying  his 
books  in  this  shop,  where  he  alwa>'s  fmds 
someone  interested  in  his  problem  of  book 
selection,  and  someone  with  a  knowledge 
of  book  news.  iMost  important  of  all  he 
fmds  here  the  desire  for  an  opportunity  to 
serve  him.     It  is  on  this  reputation  of 

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service  well  rendered  that  this  shop  has 
built  its  enviable  reputation.  It  opens 
its  grilled  gate  at  8  o'clock  every  morning 
except  Sunda\-  and  is  busy  until  10.30 
at  night  greeting  old  friends  and  new. 

The  Lord  cS:  Ta\ior  Book  Shop,  which 
is  housed  in  the  Lord  &  Taylor  store  on 
Fifth  Avenue  at  38th  Street,  is  not  a 
'^book  department,"  but  a  librarv  sales 
room  for  the  Fifth  Avenue  shopper  and 
a  mecca  for  many  book  lovers.  What 
it  lacks  in  size  is  offset  b\'  its  attrac- 
tive interior,  its  well-selected  stock  of  all 
except  technical  books,  and  we  hope 
by  the  helpfulness  of  the  people  in  the 
shop.  It  is  of  interest  to  observe  that 
during  one  Christmas  season  seventy-five 
per  cent,  of  these  sales  people  were  gradu- 
ates of  American  colleges  and  universities 
— a  small  company  of  book  lovers  and 
congenial  comrades  to  the  book-loving 
bu\er.  In  this  shop  there  are  often 
interesting  displa\s  of  first  editions, 
manuscripts,  fine  bindings,  and  other 
similar  attractions.  Three  large  windows 
facing  on  38th  Street  offer  an  excellent 
opportunit}'  for  the  display  of  the  books 
which  are  or  which  should  be  the  books 
of  the  hour.     So  long  as  space  was  avail- 

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able  in  the  Lord  &  Taylor  building  for 
lectures,  many  such  were  held  under  the 
auspices  of  the  book  shop.  While  the 
Lord  &:  Taylor  Book  Shop  is  conducted  by 
Doubleday,  Page  &  Company  it  is  affili- 
ated with  Lord  &  Taylor  in  such  a  manner 
that  the  book  buyer  has  all  the  advantages 
of  Lord  &  Taylor's  great  store. 

Liberty  Tower  Book  Shop  is  situated 
in  the  heart  of  New  York's  financial 
district,  at  55  Liberty  Street,  on  the 
northwest  corner  of  Liberty  and  Nassau 
streets.  This  shop  appeals  to  the  great 
downtown  district  with  we  hope  good 
service  to  its  customers.  Here,  the 
banker,  the  lawyer,  the  insurance  man, 
the  broker,  and  all  other  professional 
and  business  men  of  this  district  find  a 
neighborhood  shop  which  makes  a  point 
of  useful  assistance.  What  might  seem 
to  the  average  book  shop  an  imposition 
is  to  this  shop  an  opportunity.  Here,  too, 
the  book  buyer  will  find  intelligent  and 
interesting  attention  to  his  every  book 
want.  In  the  half-mile  circle  about  this 
shop  are  perhaps  the  greatest  and  most 
alert  brains  of  New  York.  Month  by 
month  its  custom  increases  and  its  list 
of  friends  grows. 

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In  the  fall  of  1919  a  new  book  shop, 
the  fourth  of  the  Doubledax'  Page  group, 
has  been  started  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
where,  strangel\'  enough,  no  retail  shop 
devoted  wholl\'  to  books  has  existed  for 
some  vears. 

All  Doubleda\',  Page  &  Compan\-  book 
shops  are  operated  under  a  centralized 
management,  which  is  the  insurance  of  a 
uniform  attitude.  The  shops  frequentlx' 
plan  unusual  selling  campaigns  and  in- 
teresting experiments  in  book  selling. 
An  instance  in  point  is  the  "  Book  Shelf 
of  Modern  Poets  Compiled  by  Amy  Lowell, 
Especially  for  Doucleday,  Page  &  Com- 
pany's Book  Shops."  Miss  Lowell  has 
in  this  selection  included  the  poets  whom 
she  considers  the  outstanding  figures  in 
modern  poetry  and  all  the  shops  have  for 
inspection  and  sale  this  "  Book  Shelf/' 
These  Doubledax',  Page  &  Compan\- 
book  shops  are  operated  to  help  the 
book  buyer  to  get  what  he  needs,  and 
to  supply  information,  and,  if  asked  for, 
advice — not  alwa\s  eas\'  to  fmd,  even  in 
book  stores. 


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ABOUT 

OUR  AUTHORS 


EFERENCE  has  already 
been  made  in  these  pages 
to  some  of  the  authors 
whose  names  have  graced 
the  catalogue  of  Double- 
day,  Page  &  Company; 
and  in  a  small  book  of  this  sort  it  is 
manifestly  impossible  to  include  a  list  of 
1,200  or  more  books,  notwithstanding  the 
interest  of  the  books  themselves. 

From  time  to  time  little  monographs 
have  been  written  about  some  of  the 
authors,  most  if  not  all  of  whose  works 
we  have  published;  and  we  venture  to 
think  that  those  who  are  so  kind  as  to  be 
interested  in  this  house  will  be  glad  to 
have  these  monographs  although  some- 
what abridged. 

The  success  of  any  publishing  house  is 
built  upon  the  quality  and  popularity  of 
the  books  they  issue;  the  final  achieve- 
ment, in  other  words,  is  founded  on  the 
authors  who  write  these  books.  Nothing, 
therefore,  could  give  us  more  satisfaction 

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than  to  put  down  here,  if  space  permitted, 
the  names  and  histories  of  all  the  authors 
who  have  loyally  supported  the  ideals 
which  are  being  worked  out  at  the  Coun- 
try Life  Press. 

If,  in  the  old  days  at  34  Union  Square, 
New  York,  when  the  house  was  having 
its  first  struggles  to  get  upon  its  feet,  and 
a  royalty  report  was  a  pitifully  small 
matter,  we  could  have  visioned  all  our 
author  partners  who  have  thrown  their 
fortunes  in  with  ours,  we  should  have 
been  mightily  encouraged.  Yet  we  still 
feel  that  our  work  has  just  begun,  and  in 
this  book  about  the  Country  Life  Press 
we  are  glad  to  take  this  chance  to  thank 
our  authors  for  their  confidence,  their 
courtesy,  and  their  unfailing  good-will. 


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JOSEPH  CONRAD 


JOSEPH  CONRAD 

A  Pen  Poriraii 

BY  JAMES  HUNEKER 


E  IS  not  so  tall  as  he  seems.  He  is 
\ery  restless.  He  paces  an  imagi- 
nary quarterdeck  and  occasionally 
peers  through  the  little  windows  of 
his  quaint  house  as  if  searching  the 


weather.  .-X  caged  sea  lion,  1  thought.  His  shrug 
and  play  of  hands  are  Gallic,  or  Polish,  as  you  please, 
and  his  e\es,  shining  or  clouded,  are  not  of  our  race, 
they  are  Slavic;  even  the  slightly  muffled  voice  is 
Slavic.  One  of  the  most  beautiful  languages  is  the 
Polish — the  French  of  the  Slav  tongues  as  it  has  been 
called.  When  Mr.  Conrad  speaks  English,  which  he 
does  with  rapidity  and  clearness  of  enunciation,  you 
can  hear,  rather  overhear,  the  foreign  cadence,  the 
soft  slurring  of  sibilants  so  characteristic  of  Polish 
speech;  in  a  word,  he  is  more  foreign  looking  than  1 
had  expected.  He  speaks  French  with  fluency  and 
purity,  ajid  he  often  lapsed  into  it  during  our  con- 
versation. Like  many  another  big  man,  he  asked 
more  questions  than  he  answered  mine.  1  under- 
went the  same  experience  with  Walt  Whitman  at 
Camden,  who  was  an  adept  in  the  gentle  art  of 
pumping  \isitors.  In  the  case  of  Joseph  Conrad 
his  curiosity  is  prompted  by  his  boundless  sympathy 
for  all  things  human.  He  is,  as  you  may  have  sur- 
mised by  his  writings,  the  most  human  and  lovable 
of  men.  He  takes  an  interest  in  everything  except 
bad  art,  which  moves  him  to  a  vibrating  indigna- 
tion, and  he  is  extremely  sympathetic  when  speak- 


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ing  of  the  work  of  his  contemporaries.  What  a 
lesson  for  the  critic  with  the  barbed-wire  method 
would  be  the  remarks  of  Conrad  upon  art  and 
artists!  Naturally,  he  has  his  gods,  his  halfgods, 
and  his  major  detestations.  The  Bible  and  Flau- 
bert were  his  companions  throughout  the  many 
years  he  voyaged  in  strange,  southern  seas.  From 
the  Bible  he  absorbed  his  racy,  idiomatic,  and  di- 
apasonic  English;  from  the  supple  shining  prose  of 
the  great  French  writer  he  learned  the  art  of  writing 
sentences,  their  comely  shape,  and  vigorous,  rhyth- 
mic gait,  their  color,  perfume;  the  passionate  music 
of  words  and  their  hateful  power.  He  also  studied 
other  masters.  He  is  an  admirer  of  Poe,  Haw- 
thorne, Walt  Whitman,  and  Henry  James  among 
American  writers. 


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JOSEPH  CONRAD 

I 

In  1874  a  Polish  lad,  seventeen  years  of  age,  born 
and  brought  up  far  removed  from  sight  or  sound  of 
the  ocean,  determined  to  go  to  sea.  It  had  been 
the  dream  of  his  boyhood.  Standing  as  a  child 
before  a  map  of  the  world  he  had  placed  his  fmger 
upon  it  saying:  "I  shall  go  there,"  there  being  the 
Congo.  And  to  the  Congo  he  finally  went.  In  the 
face  of  strong  parental  opposition  the  lad  actually 
went  to  sea,  shipping  at  Marseilles.  After  three 
years'  service  he  put  foot  for  the  first  time  on  Eng- 
lish soil.  He  spoke  French  fluently  in  addition  to 
his  native  tongue,  but  not  one  word  of  English  did 
he  know. 

Twenty  years  later,  or  in  1894,  after  continuous 
service  in  the  British  Merchant  Marine,  this  same 
lad,  then  a  man  of  thirty-seven,  quit  the  sea  for  good 
with  the  manuscript  of  an  unfinished  novel  in  his 
bag.  Till  then  the  novel  had  had  but  one  reader 
besides  the  author:  a  young  Cambridge  student, 
outward  bound  to  .'\ustralia,  who  died  shortly  after 
the  vessel  touched.  Are  you  curious  to  know  the 
name  of  this  Polish  sailor  just  stepping  ashore  and 
destined  to  begin  a  new  career  strangely  different 
from  his  sea  life?  Would  you  like  to  know  what 
became  of  the  manuscript  he  had  in  his  bag — 
what  its  name  was? 

The  manuscript  was  that  of  "Almayer's    Folly." 

The   sailor-author,  by    that    time   a  naturalized 

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British  subject  and  many  times  officer  and  master 
of  various  craft,  was  Joseph  Conrad. 

Comment  can  lend  little  to  the  essential  romance 
of  these  facts.  They  are  of  the  unbelievable  things 
— a  web  spun  of  chance  such  as  Conrad  himself  has 
woven  in  his  tales.  What  more  improbable  than 
that  a  Polish  youth,  born  inland,  should  have  a 
passion  for  a  seafaring  life;  that  he  should  choose 
English  for  his  speech  above  the  Polish  and  French 
that  he  knew;  that  he  should  set  down,  in  the  odd 
moments  of  a  sailor's  busy  life,  and  in  grave  doubt 
of  its  worth,  a  story  of  his  adventures  in  the  Mala- 
van  .\rchipelago;  and  that  this  book,  when  com- 
pleted, should  mark  his  entrance  as  a  permanent 
figure  into  English  literature?  .And  yet  this  is  pre- 
cisely what  happened  to  Joseph  Conrad. 

Some  of  the  remarkable  features  of  his  caste 
struck  his  examiner  when  he  presented  himself  for  a 
commission  in  the  British  merchant  service,  for  the 
official  asked: 

"You  are  of  Polish  extraction?"  .\nd  then: 
"Not  many  of  your  nationality  in  our  service. 
.     .     .     An  inland  people,  aren't  you?" 

Upon  which  Conrad  comments:  "\'ery  much 
so.  We  were  remote  from  the  sea,  not  only  by 
situation,  but  also  from  a  complete  absence  of 
indirect  communication,  not  being  a  commercial 
nation  at  all,  but  purely  agricultural." 

During  the  twenty  years  of  his  life  at  sea  Conrad 
visited  almost  every  corner  of  the  globe  except 
North  America.  A  chart,  just  completed,  of  the 
location  of  his  stories  indicates  China,  India,  the 
Malay  Archipelago,  Sumatra,  Australia,  South 
America,   both   west   and   east     coasts,    the    West 

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Indies,   the  Congo,    the    Red   Sea,    Spain,    France, 
England,  and  Russia. 

On  a  large  part  of  his  journeyings,  now  as  ordinary 
seaman,  then  officer,  and  finally  master,  the  manu- 
script of  "Almayer's  Folly"  accompanied  Conrad, 
erowing  a  little  at  a  time.  It  was  begun  when  he 
was  about  thirty-two  and  was  still  unfmished  when 
he  came  ashore  in  1894,  broken  in  health  by  a  ter- 
rible experience  in  the  Congo.  The  story  was 
completed  a  short  time  later  and  we  learn  from 
G.  F.  \V.  Hope,  an  old  sea  friend  of  Conrad's  who 
sailed  in  the  Duke  of  Sutherland,  that  Conrad  came 
occasionally  to  the  Hope  home  near  by  in  Essex 
County  to  read  portions  of  the  story  aloud  to  them. 
It  is  to  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Hope  that  "Lord  Jim"  is 
dedicated. 

How  "Almayer's  Folly"  was  read  by  Edward 
Garnett  for  an  English  publisher  and  issued  in 
1895;  and  how  Conrad's  first  substantial  recogni- 
tion came  in  1897  when  W.  E.  Henley  published 
"The  Nigger  of  the  Narcissus"  in  The  New  Review 
(adding  at  its  close  a  preface  which  has  since  become 
a  classic  as  the  artist's  profession  of  faith,  and  which 
was  inexplicably  suppressed  when  the  book  was 
first  published)  are  all  chapters  in  the  amazing 
story  of  Joseph  Conrad  that  surpasses  in  romantic 
realism  anything  he  has  written. 

For  the  last  two  or  three  years  the  influence  of 
Joseph  Conrad  has  been  growing  steadily  in  this 
country.  There  has  been  a  widespread  awakening 
to  the  wonder  and  beauty  and  fascination  of  his 
tales.  Everywhere  one  finds  him  spoken  of,  but 
for  the  most  part  merely  as  the  author  of  this  or 
that  book  and  with  only  meagre  information  of  his 
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own  extraordinary  life.  Now  it  is  quite  true  that 
one  can  read  and  understand  and  enjoy  Joseph 
Conrad's  stories  without  any  knowledge  of  his  per- 
sonal history.  He  needs  no  interpreter — his 
books  require  no  key.  Talk  to  the  contrary  is 
stupid  and  uninformed,  and  chiefly  the  result  of 
ignorance  of  his  stories.  No  writer  of  English 
touches  more  directly  or  more  surely  the  abiding 
human  emotions. 

At  the  same  time  it  is  difficult  to  think  of  any 
other  great  writer  at  all  comparable  to  Conrad  be- 
tween whose  chosen  work  and  whose  writing  there 
appears  to  be  such  a  complete  volte-face,  and  yet 
between  which  there  is  so  real  a  dependence  and 
gracious  spiritual  relation.  Conrad  is  not  just 
"writing  stories";  his  books,  in  very  truth,  are  fruits 
in  the  spiritual  order  of  the  grace  of  the  sea;  they 
are  acts  of  piety  to  the  memory  of  those  days  when 
chance,  blind  and  inscrutable,  marked  him  with  the 
indelible  sign  of  the  sea.  That  is  the  illumination 
for  all  who  will  read  the  record  of  Joseph  Conrad's 
life.  And  having  once  grasped  this  truth,  his 
stories  are  forever  unfolding  in  one's  mind  unguessed 
meanings  full  of  the  loveliness  of  mirrored  youth, 
of  that  "something  sentient  which  seems  to  dwell 
in  ships,"  and  of  a  filial  devotion  to  the  life  of  the 
sea. 

The  biographical  matter  that  follows,  together 
with  the  summary  of  the  books,  is  taken  in  a  much 
condensed  form  from  Richard  Curie's  "Joseph 
Conrad,"  a  recent  work  which  it  will  well  repay  the 
reader  to  consult  in  connection  with  Conrad's 
stories. 

E.  F.  Saxton. 


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II 

Biographical  and  Autobiographical 

{Condensed  from  Richard  Curie' s  "Joseph  Conrad") 

Teodor  Jozef  Konrad  Korzeniowski  was  born  in 
the  Ukraine  in  the  South  of  Poland  on  6th  Decem- 
ber, 1857.  'ri  1 86 1  he  removed  to  Warsaw  with 
his  parents,  and  in  1862  his  father,  who  had  been 
deeply  implicated  in  the  last  Polish  rebellion,  was 
banished  to  Vologda  by  the  Russian  Government. 
His  wife  and  son  followed  him  into  exile.  In  1865 
Conrad's  mother  died  and  his  father  sent  him  back 
to  the  Ukraine  to  stay  with  his  maternal  uncle 
(who  is  spoken  of  with  such  affectionate  regard  in 
"Some  Reminiscences")*,  where  he  remained  for 
five  years.  That  was  the  happiest  period  of  Con- 
rad's childhood — this  home  life  of  the  country  con- 
sciously enjoyed  and  revelled  in.  Conrad's  first 
recollection  of  public  matters  was  the  liberation  of 
the  serfs,  on  the  committee  of  which  his  uncle  was 
one  of  the  leading  spirits.  In  1869  Conrad's  father 
was  freed  on  the  ground  that  he  was  too  ill  to  be 
dangerous  any  longer.  He  carried  off  his  son  to 
Cracow,  the  old  Polish  capital,  and  died  there  in 
1870.  Conrad  was  sent  to  the  gymnasium  of  St. 
Anne,  the  foremost  public  school  of  the  city.  There 
he  came  under  the  care  of  a  tutor  who  influenced 
him  profoundly  and  who,  according  to  "Some 
Reminiscences,"  was  a  man  of  remarkable  intuition. 
He  was  put  forward  by  the  relations  to  counteract 
Conrad's  strange  and  inborn  desire  for  a  sea-life, 
but  after  some  earnest  and  futile  talks  he  realized 


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that  his  efforts  would  he  useless  and  ceased  to 
trouble  the  boy. 

Conrad's  decision  was,  indeed,  final.  Brought 
up  in  a  country  without  a  coast,  in  a  society  where  he 
saw  no  English  (though  he  knew  some  of  the  finest 
English  literature  from  translations  by  his  father), 
he  had  yet  resolved  that  he  would  be  an  English 
seaman  of  the  merchant  service.  And  against  all 
obstacles  he  carried  out  his  plan.  It  was  in  1874 
that  he  went  to  sea.  Marseilles  was  his  "jumping- 
off  ground,"  but  it  was  some  years  before  he  was 
able  to  sail  under  the  Red  Ensign.  For  it  was  not 
till  three  years  later  that  he  set  foot  in  England. 
Before  that  he  had  some  adventures  in  the  Mediter- 
ranean and  had  twice  been  to  the  West  Indies.  He 
calls  this  his  wild-oats-sowing  period.  In  May, 
1878,  he  landed  at  Lowestoft  and  first  touched 
English  soil.  At  that  time  he  did  not  know  a  word 
of  English,  but  he  learnt  it  rapidly,  being  helped 
in  a  general  sense,  to  some  extent,  by  a  local  boat- 
builder  who  understood  French.  For  five  months 
he  was  on  board  a  Lowestoft  coaster.  The  Skimmer 
of  the  Seas,  that  traded  between  that  port  and  New- 
castle. In  October,  1878,  he  joined  the  Duke  of 
Sutherland,  bound  for  Australia,  as  ordinary  sea- 
man. Of  eighteen  men  before  the  mast  all  were 
English  save  Conrad,  a  Norwegian,  two  Americans, 
and  a  St.  Kitts  Negro  called  James  W^ait — a  name 
used  just  twenty  years  later  for  the  Negro  in  "  Phe 
Nigger  of  the  Narcissus. " 

From  now  onward  till  1894,  when  he  finally  left 
the  sea,  Conrad's  life  was  the  usual  life  of  a  deep- 
water  seaman.  He  passed  for  second  mate  in 
1879  and  became  a  Master  in  the  English  Merchant 

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Ser\  ice  in  the  }ear  of  his  naturalization  in  1884. 
In  1890  and  again  in  1894  (the  year  before  his  uncle's 
death)  he  revisited  the  Ukraine. 

1  think  1  cannot  give  a  better  glimpse  of  Conrad's 
existence  during  all  these  years  than  by  jotting  down 
in  order  a  rough  list  of  the  ships  he  served  in,  either 
as  orticer  or  in  command,  from  1880  till  1894.  f  his 
is  a  list  1  scribbled  from  Conrad's  dictation,  and 
against  each  name  he  has  added  the  titles  of  those 
stories  of  his  which  the  dilferent  ships  suggest.  Of 
course  this  must  be  taken  for  what  it  is  worth — a 
single  episode,  perhaps  only  a  single  name,  in  a 
story  may  be  associated  with  a  certain  ship,  or,  on 
the  other  hand,  the  whole  story  may  be  strongly 
autobiographical  and  reminiscent.  .And  then, 
again,  different  memories  are  sometimes  welded 
together  into  one  story.  In  "Chance,"  for  in- 
stance, there  is  an  episode  connected  with  the  Rivers- 
dale  and  another  connected  with  the  Torrens. 
However,  here  is  the  list:  1  gi\e  the  ships,  and 
then,  in  brackets,  I  give  the  stories  they  individually 
call  up  in  Conrad's  mind. 

Loch-Etke   .      .   ["The  Mirror  of  the  Sea"] 

Palestine      .      .   ["Youth"] 

Riversdalc    .      .    ["The   Mirror  of  the   Sea"; 

"Chance"] 
Narcissus     .      .    ["The    Nigger    of    the    Nar- 
cissus";  "The   Mirror  of 
the  Sea"] 
S.S.  John  P.  Best      .   ["Typhoon"] 

Tilkhurst      .      .    ["The  Mirror  of  the  Sea"] 

Falcouhiirsi        .    ["  Ihe  Mirror  of  the  Sea"] 

Highland  Forest   ["The  Mirror  of  the  Sea"] 

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S.S.  yidar  .  .  .  [All  the  Malay  books;  "Ty- 
phoon"; "Some  Remi- 
niscences"] 
Otago  .  .  .  ["Falk";  "'Twixt  Land  and 
Sea";  "The  Mirror  of 
the  Sea";  "Some  Remi- 
niscences"] 

S.S.  Roi  de  Beiges   .   ["An   Outpost    of   Progress"; 

"  Heart  of  Darkness"] 
Torrens        .      .   ["Chance";    "The   Mirror  of 
the  Sea";   "Some   Remi- 
niscences"] 

S.S.  Adowa  .      .      .   ["Some  Reminiscences"] 

In  1894  Conrad  finally  left  the  sea.  He  had 
never  fully  recovered  from  a  severe  fever  that  had 
invalided  him  from  the  Congo,  and  his  health  was 
now  more  or  less  broken.  He  did  not  know  what 
to  do  with  himself  (he  had  still  some  idea  of  going 
to  sea  again),  but,  almost  as  an  afterthought,  he 
sent  in  to  Fisher  Unwin  the  no\el  which  he  had 
begun  about  1889  and  which  he  had  completed  in 
odd  moments — the  novel  of  "Almayer's  Folly." 
After  waiting  for  three  or  four  months  he  heard,  to 
his  intense  surprise,  that  it  was  accepted  (Edward 
Garnett,  as  reader,  was  responsible)  and  from 
henceforward  his  life  is  mainly  the  history  of  his 
books,  and  does  not  concern  us.  1  will  just  add  that 
he  married  in  1896  and  has  since  lived  mostly  in 
Kent  where  he  still  resides.  The  turmoil  of  a 
creator's  existence  has  no  outward  adventure  save 
the  merit  and  reception  of  his  creations,  and  in  that 
(amongst  other  things)  it  differs  from  the  wild  and 
vigorous  life  of  the  sea.  For  long  Conrad  was  only 
the  novelist  of  a  small  following  (it  was  a  landmark 
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in  his  career  when  Henley  accepted  "The  Nigger 
of  the  Narcissus"  for  The  New  Review  in  1897), 
but,  as  every  one  knows,  that  following  has  widened 
till  it  now  represents  the  whole  intellectual  world. 

Of  Conrad's  two  books  of  memories  and  impres- 
sions, "The  Mirror  of  the  Sea"  (1906)  is  the  first. 
It  may  be  described  as  a  sort  of  prose-poem  about 
the  sea,  and  a  poem  founded  not  alone  upon  flights 
of  imagery  but  upon  profound  realism  and  knowledge 
of  detail.  Its  basis  of  personal  reminiscence  ex- 
pands in  the  rare  qualities  of  poetry  and  romance. 
"The  Mirror  of  the  Sea"  is  the  most  eloquent  of  all 
Conrad's  books. 

"Some  Reminiscences"  (American  ed.  "A  Per- 
sonal Record"),  1912,  followed  six  years  later. 
Less  eloquent  than  "The  Mirror  of  the  Sea,"  it  is 
more  urbane  and  more  closely  knit.  His  descrip- 
tions of  people  such  as  his  uncle,  his  tutor,  and  the 
original  of  .'\lmayer,  are  telling  in  the  accuracy  and 
detail  of  the  portraits,  and  the  whole  book  is  en- 
livened by  the  firm  lightness  of  his  touch.  More- 
over, it  contains  passages  of  exceptional  splendor. 

To  read  these  books  sympathetically  is  to  under- 
stand Conrad's  attitude  toward  life  and  art.  His 
works  should  never  again  be  mysterious  to  us,  as  the 
works  of  the  few  men  of  real  temperamental  genius 
are  so  apt  to  be.  These  two  books  of  Conrad's  are 
the  true  "open  sesame"  to  his  novels  and  stories. 

Ill 
Novels  and  Stories 

(Condensed  from  Richard  Curie's  "Joseph  Conrad") 

Up  to  the  present  Conrad  has  published  ten 
novels   (two  of  them  in  collaboration  with    Ford 

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Madox  Hueffer)  and  five  volumes  of  stories.  I 
will  examine  his  own  novels  to  begin  with. 

His  first  book  is  "Almayer's  Folly"  (1895). 
This  "story  of  an  Eastern  River"  is  one  of  illusion, 
weariness,  and  irresistible  passion.  Almayer  is 
the  white  trader,  the  only  white  trader,  of  Sambir, 
a  distant  and  obscure  settlement  up  the  river 
Pantai  of  an  island  in  the  Dutch  East  Indies,  it 
is  not  one  of  Conrad's  easiest  stories  to  read.  But 
it  is  an  imposing  effort  of  its  kind,  this  sinister 
revelation  of  a  tropical  backwater. 

Conrad's  next  book  is  "An  Outcast  of  the  Islands" 
(1896).  This  is  another  tragic  story  of  Sambir  and 
the  Pantai,  and  it  would  be  almost  better  to  con- 
sider it  before  ".Almayer's  Folly"  because  it  treats 
of  a  date  fifteen  to  twenty  years  anterior  to  that 
novel.  In  "An  Outcast  of  the  Islands"  Almayer  is 
still  young.  The  story  is  one  of  \iolent  emotion 
soon  spent — like  a  tropical  downpour.  There  is 
scheming  in  it,  hatred,  and  passion.  As  in  "Alma- 
yer's Folly"  the  teeming,  patient,  and  silent  life  of 
the  wilds  weighs  upon  every  person  and  thing, 
coloring  the  whole  aspect  of  nature  not  only  in  a 
material  but  in  a  spiritual  sense. 

"The  Nigger  of  the  Narcissus"  (1899)  is  Conrad's 
third  novel.  It  is  the  story  of  one  voyage  of  the 
sailing-ship  Narcissus  from  Bombay  to  London — a 
story  dealing  with  calms  and  with  storms,  with 
mutiny  on  the  high  seas,  with  bravery  and  with 
cowardice,  with  tumultuous  life,  and  with  death, 
the  releaser  from  toil.  This  is  one  of  Conrad's 
most  original  conceptions.  He  alone  has  ever 
written  such  a  book.  It  has  the  vividness  of  an 
actual  experience  touched  by  the  magic  glitter  of 

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remembrance.     The  descriptions  of  the  sea  and  of 
the  life  on  board  are  strangely  beautiful. 

"Lord  Jim"  (1900)  is  fourth  in  the  list.  It  is  a 
story  of  remorse  and  of  the  effort  to  regain  self- 
respect  for  a  deed  of  fatal  and  unexpected  coward- 
ice. The  sea  and  secluded  Eastern  settlements 
are  the  background.  There  can  be  little  doubt 
that  Conrad's  fame  as  a  novelist  rests  chiefly  upon 
"Lord  Jim."  And  perhaps  the  main  reason  for 
this  is  that  it  raises  a  fierce  moral  issue  in  a  very 
definite  form  and  carries  it  through  on  a  high  level 
of  creative   intensity. 

"Nostromo"  (1903)  is  the  fifth  novel  by  Conrad. 
It  is  the  history  of  a  South  American  revolution. 
But  on  this  leading  theme  there  hang  a  multitude 
of  side-issues  and  of  individual  experiences,  in 
this  story  of  vast  riches,  of  unbridled  passions,  of 
patriotism,  of  greed,  of  barbaric  cruelty,  of  the  most 
debased  and  of  the  most  noble  impulses,  the  whole 
history  of  South  .-Xmerica  seems  to  be  epitomized. 

"Nostromo"  is  Conrad's  longest  novel,  and,  in  my 
opinion,  it  is  by  far  his  greatest.  It  is  a  book 
singularly  little  known  and  one  which  many  people 
find  a  difficulty  in  reading  (probably  owing  to  the 
confused  way  in  which  time  is  indicated),  but  it  is 
one  of  the  most  astounding  tours  de  force  in  all  lit- 
erature. For  sheer  creative  genius  it  overtops  all 
Conrad's  work. 

In  Contrast  to  "Nostromo,"  "The  Secret  Agent" 
(1907)  is  a  comparatively  simple  book.  It  is  a 
novel  treating  of  the  underworld  of  London  life — 
the  underworld  of  anarchists  and  spies.  Verloc. 
"the  secret  agent,"  is  ostensibly  an  anarchist,  but 
in  reality  a  spy  of  one  of  the  big  embassies. 
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"Under  Western  Eyes"  (191 1)  gets  its  name  from 
the  fact  that  it  is  told  by  an  old  English  teacher  of 
languages  in  Geneva,  partly  in  his  own  words  and 
partly  from  a  diary.  The  book  is  written  with 
great  precision  and  subtlety  of  language,  and 
marks  a  step  forward  in  Conrad's  exactitude  of 
style.  The  description  of  the  winter  night  of  Rus- 
sia, of  the  Russian  colony  in  Geneva,  and  of  the 
sister  and  mother  of  Haldin  are  particularly  striking. 

"Chance"  (1914)  is  Conrad's  latest  novel.  As 
its  name  implies,  the  irony  of  chance  is  the  leading 
link  of  the  whole  structure.  This  is  probably  the 
hardest  of  Conrad's  books  about  which  one  can 
make  any  conclusive  judgment.  Admirers  of  his 
earlier  work  may  consider  it  almost  arid,  but  that 
is  simply  to  misunderstand  the  recent  development 
of  Conrad's  art.  For  the  truth  is  that  "Chance" 
is  a  work  of  the  finest  shades  and  of  the  highest 
tension.     It  is  the  most  finished  of  all  his  books. 

With  "Chance"  we  come  to  the  end  of  the  novels 
written  solely  by  Conrad.  There  still  remain  to  be 
considered  the  two  novels  he  wTote  in  conjunction 
with  Ford  Hueffer,  but  before  examining  them  I  will 
say  something  about  his  five  volumes  of  stories. 

The  first  of  these  is  "Tales  of  Unrest"  (1898). 
There  are  five  stories  in  this  book — "  Karain," 
"The  Idiots,"  "An  Outpost  of  Progress,"  "The 
Return,"  and  "The  Lagoon."  The  most  remarkable 
is  "The  Return,"  which  is  well  seconded  by  "An 
Outpost  of  Progress."  The  most  beautiful  is 
certainly  "The  Lagoon"  (it  is  particularly  inter- 
esting from  the  fact  that  it  is  the  first  short  story 
Conrad  ever  wrote),  while  "  Karain"  is  the  sunniest, 
and  "The  Idiots"  the  most  realistic. 

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"Youth"  (1902)  comes  next  in  order.  It  is  as 
famous  amongst  Conrad's  volumes  of  stories  as 
"Lord  Jim"  is  amongst  his  novels — and  more 
deservedly  so.  For  it  contains  in  "Youth"  the 
most  romantic,  in  "Heart  of  Darkness"  the  most 
terrible,  and  in  "The  End  of  the  Tether"  the  most 
pathetic  story  Conrad  has  ever  written.  "Youth," 
itself,  is  certainly  one  of  the  very  finest  things  in 
Conrad,  a  gorgeous  dream,  a  vision  of  the  rare  and 
transient  illusion  of  youth. 

"Typhoon"  (1903)  is  Conrad's  third  volume  of 
stories.*  It  is  made  up  of  four  tales:  "Typhoon," 
"Amy  Foster,"  "Falk,"  "To-morrow."  The  first 
and  longest  of  these  is,  as  its  name  implies,  the  de- 
scription of  a  storm — a  typhoon  in  the  China  Seas. 
"Typhoon,"  itself,  is  the  most  prodigious  descrip- 
tion of  a  storm  in  the  whole  of  literature.  As  a 
piece  of  word-painting  it  is  unrivalled,  and  it  is 
at  the  same  time  a  notable  study  in  psychology  and 
contains  some  of  Conrad's  cleverest  character  draw- 
ing on  a  small  scale.  "Amy  Foster,"  on  the  other 
hand,  has  the  sober  atmosphere  of  Conrad's  later 
method.  It  is  a  delicate,  faithful,  and  precise  pic- 
ture. "Falk"  has  the  fertile  elaboration  of  Con- 
rad's most  expansive  work.  It  is  a  study  in  per- 
sonality and  atmosphere  that  exhales  the  warm 
breath  of  a  tropical  Eastern  river.  "To-morrow" 
is  a  very  poignant  study,  and  one  touched  by  the 
breath  of  symbolism. 

"A  Set  of  Six"  (1908)  is  the  next  collection  of 
stories.     The  six  tales  of  this  book  present  a  striking 


*Note:  In  the  American  edition  "Typhoon"  is  published  sepa- 
rately, while  the  volume  entitled  "Falk"  contains  the  story 
of  that  name  along  with  "Amy  Foster"  and  "To-morrow." 

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change  in  Conrad's  technique.  Their  atmosphere 
of  romance  tends  to  the  inward  contemplation  of  a 
mood  rather  than  the  piling  up  of  substantial  eflFect. 
They  are,  in  many  externals,  very  unlike  his  earlier 
work.  Of  the  individual  stories,  "Caspar  Ruiz"  is 
hardly  convincing — especially  in  its  later  phases; 
"The  informer"  is  sardonically  icy;  "The  Brute," 
"An  Anarchist,"  and  "11  Conde"  are  pathetic, 
exciting,  and  beautifully  proportioned;  "The  Duel" 
is  a  work  of  wide  imaginative  impulse — a  wonder- 
ful reconstruction  of  the  Napoleonic  atmosphere. 
.\s  a  sustained  effort  in  Conrad's  sardonic  later 
style  "The  Duel"  is  unmatched. 

Conrad's  most  recent  \olume  of  stories  is  "Twixt 
Land  and  Sea"  (1912),  and  it  contains  three  tales — 
".\  Smile  of  Fortune,"  "The  Secret  Sharer,"  and 
"  Freya  of  the  Seven  Islands."  In  subject  and  tech- 
nique these  three  stories  are  a  return  to  Conrad's 
earlier  work  while  they  retain  the  fmish  of  his  later 
period.  The  style  is  extremely  distinguished  and 
the  psychology  subtle  without  being  at  all  overdone. 
The  first  of  them,  "A  Smile  of  Fortune,"  is  a  very 
uncommon  study  in  the  bizarre  backwaters  of 
character.  As  for  "The  Secret  Sharer,"  that  is 
certainly  a  marvelous  creation  in  atmosphere  and 
in  the  pyschology  of  the  hunted.  The  last  and 
longest  tale,  "Freya  of  the  Se\en  Islands,"  is,  per- 
haps, the  most  painful  Conrad  has  ever  written. 
There  is  something  deeply  melancholy  in  this 
drama  set  amidst  the  treacherous  splendor  of 
Eastern  Seas. 

1  will  say  a  few  words  now  about  the  two  novels 
in  the  writing  of  which  Conrad  collaborated  with 
Ford  Fiueffer.     The  first  of  these  is  "The  Inheritors  " 

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(1901).  It  is  a  fantastic  stor\-  ahoul  a  new  race  of 
people,  dwellers  in  a  fourth  dimension,  who  mix 
indistinguishably  with  ordinary  mortals  and  grad- 
ually oust  them  from  all  positions  of  supreme  power. 
The  internal  evidence  of  Conrad's  collaboration  is 
slight — visible,  indeed,  only  in  the  negative  quali- 
ties of  proportion  and  restraint. 

''Romance"  (1903)  stands  on  a  very  different 
footing.  As  far  as  1  can  judge  Conrad  must  have 
had  a  great  deal  to  do  with  the  middle  part  of  this 
book.  It  is  a  novel  of  adventure  of  ninety  years 
since,  starting  with  an  exploit  amongst  smugglers 
on  the  Kentish  coast,  and  then  taking  the  young 
hero,  John  Kemp,  to  Jamaica  and  on  to  Cuba  where 
he  undergoes  incredible  hardships  and  dangers,  and 
gains  the  love  of  a  Spanish  girl  of  startling  beauty 
and  fabulous  wealth.  There  are  plots  and  counter- 
plots on  every  page  and  murderous  pirates,  there  are 
deaths,  and  there  is  revenge,  and  always  there  is 
danger  and  passionate  love.  It  is  a  sheer  novel  of 
adventure,  and  the  glory  of  it  lies  in  its  color  and 
shifting  lights. 

Since  the  above  was  written,  the  volume  of  short 
stories,  "The  Shadow  Line,"  his  great  novel 
"Victory"  and  another  book  of  short  stories, 
"Within  the  Tides,"  have  been  published.  In  the 
spring  of  1919  his  latest  novel,  "The  .Arrow  of  Gold," 
was  issued.  This  book,  in  many  respects  quite 
different  from  his  earlier  work,  has  added  greatly  to 
the  number  of  his  admirers.  "The  Arrow  of 
Gold"  being  a  romance  has  enlarged  his  circle  of 
readers,  at  the  same  time  cementing  the  friendship 
of  the  tens  of  thousands  that  were  already  Con- 
rad lovers. 

1  IS 


BOOTH  TARKINGTON 


BOOTH 
TARKINGTON 

Extracts  from  the  Book  of  That  Title 

By  Robert  Cortes  Holliday 


•N  CONTEMPLATING  the  Idea  of 
Mr.  Tarkington  one  is  struck  at  the 
outset  by  an  arresting  reflection.  It 
is  impossible  to  avoid  the  assumption 
that,  whether  or  not  he  has  "made 
good,"  the  gods  had  something  decidedly  unusual 
in  mind  in  the  matter  of  his  existence.  If  (as  Mr. 
James  declares)  the  first  fact  which  goes  a  great 
way  to  explain  the  composition  of  Stevenson  is 
that  the  boyhood  of  the  author  of  "Kidnapped" 
was  passed  in  the  shadow  of  Edinburgh  Castle,  it 
is  equally  true  that  it  would  halt  terribly  at 
the  start  any  account  of  the  work  of  Mr.  Tark- 
ington which  should  omit  to  insist  promptly  that 
he  grew  up  in  the  neighborly  and  cozy  big  country 
town  (as  it  was  then)  of  Indianapolis.  Even  now, 
"the  man  across  the  street  or  next  door,",  "will 
share  any  good  thing  he  has  with  you,  whether  it 
be  a  cure  for  rheumatism,  a  new  book,  or  the  garden 
hose."  And,  "it  is  a  town  where  doing  as  one  likes 
is  not  a  mere  possibility,  but  an  inherent  right." 

Much  of  the  local  color  of  Mr.  Tarkington's  boy- 
hood in  the  middle-western  town  which  was  his 
home  is  of  course  reflected  in  the  boy  stories  of  his 
middle  life.  The  topography  of  his  youthful  orbit, 
one  perceives,  comprised  as  its  most  salient  features 
"alleys,"  stables,  yards,  fences,  "cisterns,"  and 
porches,  with  more  or  less  perfunctory  rounds  to 
Sunday  School,  dancing  class,  and  "Ward  School," 

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He  was  a  town  boy;  neither  a  city  nor  a  country 
boy.  The  pleasant  flavor  of  a  thoroughly  represent- 
ative American  town,  which  he  imbibed  in  his 
early  formative  years,  permeates  nearly  all  his 
work;  and  it  is  his  very  honest  feeling  for  the  charm 
of  just  such  a  place  that,  one  cannot  fail  to  note, 
gives  a  strength  to  much  of  his  rosy  sentiment 
— and,  later,  dri\ing  force  to  his  satire. 

What  is  to  come  we  know  not.      But  we  know 
That  what  has  been  was  good — good  to  show, — 

The  author  of  "The  Gentleman  from  Indiana"  was 
a  neophyte  of  rich  promise.  He  has,  after  some  wav- 
erings, more  than  amply  fulfilled  that  early  promise. 
He  has  learned  his  trade  in  all  its  departments.  He 
has  employed  in  practice  as  an  artistic  precept  the 
moral  one,  to  try  all  things  and  then  to  hold  fast  to 
that  which  is  good.  He  has  found  his  true,  rare 
vocation,  that  of  satirist,  critic.  He  is  in  the  prime 
of  life,  what  is  called  "the  \ery  plenitude  of  his 
powers."  He  has  entered  upon  a  period  of  amazing 
productivity;  is  \ery  much  "on  the  job";  and  ap- 
pears to  be  "functioning"  perfectly.  He  has  gath- 
ered himself  together,  and  set  his  house  in  order. 
He  has  been  chastened  by  life,  and  success.  He 
holds  in  the  hollow  of  his  hand  the  magic  of  style. 
He  knows  men  (women  and  boys),  books,  and  cities. 
What  sort  of  critical  speculation  may  be  hazarded 
as  to  what  degree  of  excellence  he  may  reasonably 
be  expected  yet  to  attain?  By  what  he  has  done  he 
has  "let  himself  in  for"  a  good  deal  to  come.  By 
what  he  has  now  written  we  may  know  that  he  has 
not  yet  begun  to  write. 

Another  fact  that  enters  into  the  composition  of 
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Mr.  Tarkinglon  is  that  as  an  undergraduate  he 
had  a  kind  of  genius  for  American  college  life  and 
was,  apparently,  in  e\erything  and  of  everything 
that  made  for  good  fellowship.  Such,  it  seems, 
were  the  qualities  of  his  heart  and  mind  made  mani- 
fest there  that  he  has  become  one  of  the  bright 
legends  of   Princeton. 

A  most  conspicuous  effect  of  the  atmosphere  of 
this  life  which  Mr.  1  arkington,  with  amusing  un- 
consciousness of  it,  has  carried  o\er  into  his  work 
is  the  spirit  of  the  Glee  Club,  an  e\er-recurrent  echo 
of  the  sound  of  singing.  His  lovers  sing;  and,  of 
all  lovers,  all  the  world  must  love  most  a  singing 
lover.  Throughout  his  pages  "serenaders  nightly 
seek  the  garden  with  instrumental  plunkings." 
Or,  there  is  wafted  to  the  ear  of  the  rapt  one  with- 
out the  music  of  a  clear,  soft  voice  within  welling 
the  "Angels'  Serenade."  His  drunken  men  sing — 
and  that  is  about  the  most  winning  thing  adrunken 
man  can  do.  His  Sunday-school  classes  sing  with 
rousing  effect  on  the  neighbors. 

His  small  boys  sing  and  whistle  with  equal  elo- 
quence. And,  best  of  all,  his  colored  people  every- 
where sing  as  only  colored  people  can. 

The  effect  of  this  atmosphere  of  singing  in  Mr. 
Tarkington's  books  is  several  fold.  It  has  a  part 
in  the  success  with  which  the  author  carries  across 
the  pages  of  his  romances  the  glamorous  spirit  of 
chivalry.  It  aids  greatly  in  giving  to  many  of  his 
books  the  infectious  air  which  they  have  of  youth 
and  the  "good  old  summer  time."  Mr.  Tarking- 
ton's portraits  of  humorous  natures — darkies  and 
boys — are  rendered  much  more  rounded  and 
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presentation  of  their  frequent  vocal  flights.  And, 
too,  in  his  realistic  pictures,  the  happiness,  which  he 
interprets,  dwelling  in  small  places — places  of 
shaded  streets  and  quiet  evenings — is  in  no  incon- 
siderable degree  conveyed  by  the  sounds  of  music 
flung  to  the  air. 

Tarkington  went  from  his  alma  mater  with  (so 
the  story  goes)  something  of  a  general  understand- 
ing round  about  him  that  he  was  to  devote  himself 
to  literary  work.  Naturally,  it  is  reported,  there 
were  many  of  his  own  class,  and  some  of  maturer 
years,  who  looked  for  almost  immediate  achie\e- 
ment. 

After  college  for  a  good  many  years  Mr.  Tarking- 
ton was  and  yet  seven  years  to  a  day  from  his  Com- 
mencement this  man  was  "sitting  on  a  fence  rail  in 
Indiana."  Just  so.  Though,  all  in  all,  it  was  a 
decidedly  figurative  fence  rail. 

Mr.  Tarkington  might  have  said  with  quite  as 
much  truth  as  Stevenson,  "All  through  my  boy- 
hood and  youth  I  was  known  and  pointed  out  for 
the  pattern  of  an  idler."  Indeed,  until  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  his  thirtieth  year  his  career  seems  to 
have  been  regarded  by  his  fellow-townsmen  in  the 
light  of  a  rather  attractive  joke.  He  was  "a  big 
duck  in  the  puddle"  in  all  affairs  of  "society"  in 
his  home  town,  whose  principal  visible  business, 
according  to  old  rumor,  was  gallant  courtesy  to 
every  visiting  petticoat  of  quality.  According  to 
an  old  classmate,  he  was  (then)  "a  romanticist  in 
life  as  in  literature." 

And  yet,  equally  with  R.  L.  S.,  this  other  "idler," 
too,  was  always  busy  on  his  own  pri\'ate  end,  which 
was — not  an  ordinary  thing  to-day — "to  learn  to 

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write."  I  hose  roving  in  the  nocturnal  depths  past 
the  Tarkington  homestead  at  that  period  of  the 
idler's  business  remarked  what,  if  they  had  then 
thought  of  it  that  way,  was  the  mark  of  a  late 
student:  the  lamp  at  midnight  hour,  seen  in  the 
high,  lonely  tower  which  did  oft'  outwatch  the  well- 
known  Bear,  and  so  on.  it  was  probably  a  con- 
sciousness of  the  foolish  look  which  his  unrewarded 
activities  may  have  had  outside  that  caused  Mr. 
Tarkington  at  that  time  modestly  to  describe  the 
serious  schooling  which  he  gave  himself  as  "fussin' 
with  literachoor." 

Much  of  what  he  wrote  at  that  time,  one  gathers 
from  him,  was  for  no  definite  ulterior  use;  it  was 
written  consciously  for  practice,  or  perhaps  done 
unconscious  of  that  aim. 

Mr.  Tarkington's  style  is  a  curiously  fluid  one, 
which  changes  its  color  with  every  turn;  but  in  this, 
in  clarity,  conspicuous  among  our  authors,  popular 
and  unpopular,  he  has  seldom  failed  to  bless  his 
reader. 

"Elegant,  facile,  rapid,"  says  a  French  Master, 
"there  you  have  the  perfect  politeness  of  a  writer." 
In  sum,  Mr.  Tarkington's  style,  with  all  its  complete 
modernity  to-day,  is  such  a  style  as  comes  of  good 
breeding,  of  having  early  assimilated  the  atmos- 
phere of  the  best  literary  society,  that  is  of  first- 
rate  writers.  Neatness,  precision,  ease,  modera- 
tion, lightness  of  touch,  lucidity,  these,  in  general, 
are  its  qualities.  He  i^  clever  without  being  smart, 
and  pointed  without  emphasis.  As  for  that  dread- 
ful something  which  goes  by  the  name  of  rhetoric, 
you  may  search  his  volumes  through  without  find- 
ing  a   trace   of  it.     Brilliancy,   surprise,    felicities, 

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originalities — all  these  he  "wears  like  a  flower." 
"Writing  like  a  streak"  has  never  yet  "come 
natural."  Mr.  Tarkington's  testimony  is  that  of 
all  artists.  "There  are  no  teachers,"  he  says,  look- 
ing hard  into  his  past.  "We  must  work  it  out  alone. 
We  must  learn  by  failure  and  by  repeated  efforts 
how  the  thing  should  be  done."  He  wrote  and  re- 
wrote his  experiments,  which  were  "rejected 
every  time";  and  he  has  confessed  that  the  gross 
return  from  his  first  five  years  of  effort  was  exacth- 
$22.50. 

The  spectator  of  Mr.  Tarkington  throughout  his 
career  is  reminded  of  George  Gray  Barnard's 
sculpture,  "Two  natures  contending  within  man." 
First  one  prevails,  then  the  other.  The  two  spirits 
that  have  made  Mr.  Tarkington  a  theatre  of  com- 
bat are  realism  and  romanticism,  and  romanticism 
confused  with  a  realistic  setting  is,  of  course,  melo- 
drama. "The  Gentleman  from  Indiana"  began, 
and  maintained  itself  fairly  well  half  way  through, 
as  a  serious  and  valuable  transcript  of  manners: 
and  then  it  became  a  burst  of  purple  glamour  not  of 
this  world.  As  late  even  as  "The  Flirt"  Mr. 
Tarkington  has  at  times  manifested  a  curious  in- 
ability to,  so  to  say,  keep  his  eye  on  the  ball. 

Critics  have  had  Mr.  Tarkington  fixed  as  a  ro- 
manticist, and  critics  have  had  him  fixed  as  a  real- 
ist; but  the  gods  pri\ily  had  it  fixed  that  he  was  to 
be  something  more  uncommon.  The  author  of 
"In  the  Arena"  would  change  manners;  he  would 
portray  them,  that  men  by  seeing  them  would  learn 
their  evil  or  ridiculousness — in  short,  he  deflnitelx 
revealed  himself  as  a  satirist — a  chafer  under  exist- 
ing conditions — a  critic.     June,  and  wine,  and  roses, 

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and  belletristic  grace,  and  the  he's-a-jolly-good- 
fellow-GIee-Club  air  have  suddenly  quite  gone  by 
the  board  in  "  In  the  Arena,"  and  in  their  stead 
appears  an  apparition  wonderful  to  see  over  Mr. 
Tarkington's  way,  a  Carlylesque  indignation  and 
vehemence.  Ihe  Mr.  Tarkington  of  "In  the 
.\rena"  is  the  Mr.  Tarkington  heading  toward  the 
.Mr.  Tarkington  of  "  Fhe  Turmoil."  There  is  a 
good  deal  of  the  same  fiery  energy,  the  same  kind 
of  rip-roaring  earnestness,  the  same  moral  intensity 
in  the  sharp,  smashing  style,  the  same  mordant 
wit.  Mr.  Brownell  says  of  Lowell's  wit  that  Lowell 
possessed  too  little  malice  to  be  distinctly  penetrat- 
ing. And  in  this  stinging  quality,  which  entered 
into  Mr.  Tarkington's  wit  in  his  political  sketches, 
he  is  distinguished  to-day  beyond  any  .American 
w Titer  of  fiction  that  1  can  think  of. 


TARKINGTON  AND  HIS  BOOKS 

In  turning  over  the  reviews  of  Mr.  Tarkington's 
books,  the  notices  contemporary  with  their  pub- 
lication, one's  interest  is  engaged  by  the  number  of 
limes  the  word  "  trifle"  is  applied  as  a  term  of  desig- 
nation. The  term  is  invariably  employed  by  these 
reviewers  in  a  sympathetic  sense,  and  it  may  be 
embraced  as  a  happy  one  for  its  purpose.  Its  repe- 
tition, too,  is  suggestive  of  a  critical  fancy.  In  .Mr. 
Tarkington's  hands,  the  trifle — the  short  piece,  light 
as  air,  and  irradiant  with  color — becomes  a  distinct 
literary  form  (as  the  sonnet  is  a  distinct  form,  or 
the  essayj.  Mr.  Tarkington's  /or/r  for  these  delicate 
morsels  of  unexpected  fla\or  reminds  one  of  noth- 
ing so  much  as  Whistler's  genius  for  debonair, 
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exquisite,  and  inimitable  little  drawings  in  colored 
chalks.  They,  too,  were  trifles,  and  they  were  per- 
fection. If  the  soul  of  Whistler  were  to  come  back 
among  us  as  that  of  a  writer,  I  think  this  author 
would  write  something  very  much  in  the  form  of 
"Monsieur  Beaucaire,"  or  of  "Cherry,"  or  (most 
likely  of  all)  "The  Beautiful  Lady." 

It  may  also  be  remarked  that  the  sum  of  the 
world's  literature  of  perfect  trifles  is  not  very  large. 
Any  collection  of  such  pieces — were  one  to  be  made, 
like  the  volumes  of  the  World's  Greatest  Short 
Stories — would  have  to  give  a  good  place  to  "The 
Beautiful  Lady."  There  is  a  suggestion  of  Steven- 
son, too,  in  the  high  polish  of  this  curious  style,  in  the 
niceties  of  the  Neapolitan's  language,  which  has 
something  of  a  mincing  step.  There  is  humor  of  a 
very  distinguished  order — humor  of  a  quality  which 
is  to  be  found  in  few  books,  and  the  glamorous 
Lady  herself,  the  sense  of  a  beautiful  presence,  is 
conveyed  with  something  of  the  subtle  touch  of  the 
author  of  "The  Portrait  of  a  Lady." 

A  peculiar  charm  of  Mr.  Tarkington's  fiction  is 
the  sweetness,  fidelity,  and  goodness  of  his  woman- 
kind, the  moral  fairness  of  his  leading  ladies.  One 
cannot  say  that  his  treatment  of  the  theme  of  the 
relations  of  the  sexes  ever  rises  to  heights  of  sub- 
lime dignity,  ever  to  the  level  of  impassioned  poetry. 
Some  of  the  love  in  his  romances  could  be  called 
little  more  than  Valentine  sentiment  yet  his  quaintly 
adoring,  poetic  ideal  of  women  as  guardians  of  what 
is  good  in  men,  as  some  eloquent  reviewer  has  some- 
where observed,  is  an  inspiration  which  gives  his 
earlier  books  much  of  their  tearful,  smiling,  tender 
radiance,  their  caroling  hopefulness.     The  women 

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of  his  ideal  are  of  the  sort  that  give  with  both  hands 
rather  than  receive.  And  the  more  "down"  their 
lovers  are  the  more  Mr.  Tarkington's  heroines  con- 
sider it  a  point  of  their  womanhood  to  stand  by 
them. 

There  is,  to  be  noted,  too,  another  salient  charac- 
teristic of  Mr.  Tarkington's  heroines:  there  are  no 
Emma  McChesnies  among  them;  they  are  all 
ladies,  the  product  of  a  sheltered  rearing.  And, 
as  with  Mary  Vetress,  their  going  to  be  stenog- 
raphers would  be  unthinkable. 

But  the  new  Tarkington,  Doctor  Tarkington  the 
vivisectionist,  certainly  comes  wholly  into  view  in 
the  author's  extraordinary  boy  cycle,  which  began 
with  Hedrick  Madison.  Mr.  Tarkington's  interpre- 
tation of  the  creature,  boy,  has  a  weird  quality;  and, 
one  has  an  uncanny  feeling,  his  studies  in  boy  psy- 
chology call  for  some  sort  of  a  pathological  explana- 
tion. In  effect  his  analysis  of  the  utterly  mad  work- 
ings of  the  boy's  mind  and  the  throbbing  of  his  in- 
flamed nerves  is  as  if  a  boy  himself  had  suddenly 
become  endowed  with  the  faculty  of  thinking  it  out 
aloud.  That  is,  the  author's  interpretation  of  the 
boy,  moving  about  in  what  is  to  him  the  cataclysm 
of  life,  does  not  so  much  seem  to  be  the  work  of  a 
mind  observing  him  from  without,  as  it  appears  to  be 
a  voice  from  within  explaining  the  matter,  the  voice 
of  a  boy  uniquely  gifted  with  the  power  of  self- 
analysis.  It  is  as  if  the  author  had  a  device  in  his 
head  like  the  plumbing  giving  hot  and  cold  water 
to  a  bath-tub  and  as  if  he  could  at  will  turn  off  the 
stream  of  mature  thinking  and  turn  on  the  boy 
thinking.  And  to  recapture  the  sensations  of  twelve 
or  of  seventeen  is  exactly  what  the  normal  adult 

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mind  cannot  do.  The  author  of  Penrod  and  Will- 
iam Baxter  certainly  is  not  as  other  men;  he  com- 
mands some  occult  power.  .And  the  joke  of  this 
mystery  is  that  Mr.  Tarkington  says  boy  stories 
are  the  "easiest"  things  to  write  there  are.  He 
can  "do  any  of  them"  in  a  day  and  a  half.  .And  he 
thinks  that  "anybody  could  do  it." 

My  first  impression  of  Booth  Tarkington  the 
man  was  vivid.  I  was  sitting  in  the  University 
Club  at  Indianapolis,  reading  the  paper,  when  a 
\oice  of  hoarse  timbre  and  of  unusual  \olume  sound- 
ed out  in  the  hall,  and  a  young  man  with  a  good 
deal  of  something  about  him  entered  the  room.  1 
know  not  exactly  what  name  to  put  upon  this 
something,  perhaps  you  would  call  it  "class." 
A  young  man  in  that  he  may  have  been  anywhere 
between  thirty-five  and  forty-fne  (or  so).  College 
chap  kind  of  look.  He  was  fashionably  dressed  and 
carried  a  handsome  cane.  Sexeral  persons  who  had 
been  drowsing  burst  into  hearty  welcome;  and  there 
came  instantly  into  the  atmosphere  an  electric 
feeling  of  something  unusual  going  forward.  Seated 
presently,  he  had  very  much  the  effect,  with  his 
slouched  attitude  and  his  smart  apparel,  of  a  por- 
trait, So-and-So,  Esq.,  that  you  might  see  at,  say, 
the   Montross  Gallery. 

But  the  picture — not  the  painted  one,  the  real 
one — of  Mr.  Tarkington  in  his  habit  as  he  labors  is 
startlingly  unlike  anything  ever  done  of  him  in 
paint  or  print.  He  is  collarless  (the  collar-button 
of  his  shirt  unbuttoned),  and  garbed  in  an  old 
and  particularly  evil-looking  dressing-gown,  which 
looks  as  if  it  might  have  been  constructed  of  a 
horse-blanket  which   had  seen  active  service,  and 

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had  not  been  reno\aled  since.  I  his  blanket  accen- 
tuates the  rounded  stoop  which  he  seems  to  take 
on  in  this  chamber,  a  stoop  so  marked  as  to  give 
him  at  moments  a  hunchback  appearance.  Re- 
moved from  the  handsome,  and  youthful,  lines  of 
his  tailored  clothes,  with  this  prehistoric  stoop,  and 
in  this  quaint  gunny-sack  gown,  he  presents,  now 
and  then,  altogether  a  humorously  elderly  effect. 
No,  not  elderly;  old,  very  old;  ancient — beyond  the 
reckoning  cf  years.  Especially  is  this  so  when  he 
puts  on  (with  a  trembling  hand)  his  shell  spectacles 
to  peer  at  something.  And  podders  about  the  room 
in  shuffling  slippers,  as  he  does  in  a  kind  of  lean- 
slippered-and-pantaloon  manner.  All  in  all,  the 
visitor  who  has  the  privileged  honor  to  penetrate 
into  the  upper  fastness  is  likely  to  receive  an  im- 
pression of  the  master  of  the  house  as  a  bi-arn- 
object.  Your  host  has  the  general  ert'ect  of  recall- 
ing to  your  mind  some  figure  in  a  wild  tale.  An 
eccentric  being,  an  old  uncle,  a  miser,  maybe,  in  a 
Stevenson  yarn  of  romance.  In  poetic  justice,  a 
black  cat  should  perch  upon  the  shoulder  cf  this 
figure;  this  ancient  should  keep  his  teeth  in  a  glass: 
he  should,  midst  squeaking  wheezes  and  rusty 
cackles,  poke  the  fire  with  a  broken  bellows. 

To  the  imagination,  in  the  setting  here  of  his  rich 
library,  this  picturesque  gentleman  might  be  the 
last  thing  in  the  world  he  is,  a  "man  of  books,"  a 
bibliophile.  Though  a  bibliophile,  a  man  who 
makes  of  book  collecting  an  exact  science,  did  one 
scrutinize  these  shelves,  would  be  very  much  an- 
noyed; he  would  find  the  library  as  miscellaneous 
and  democratic  as  the  museum:  the  aesthete,  Arthur 
Symons,  shoulders  the  soldier  of  fortune,  Richard 
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Harding  Davis.  Close  by  one  window  is  a  sharply 
tilted  drawing  table  on  the  face  of  which  rest  a 
number  of  sheets  of  manila  legal  cap,  the  top  sheet 
inscribed  in  a  huge  hand,  "Chap.  V."  And  on  a 
stand  by  the  table  is  a  startling  array  of  dozens  and 
dozens  of  long,  newly-sharpened  pencils.  "Sharp- 
en 'em  all  the  night  before,"  explains  Mr.  Tark- 
ington.  Stern  pieparation  for  the  coming  death- 
grapple  with  that  angel! 

In  England  it  is  a  common  thing  for  an  author  to 
be  a  game-warden,  a  constable,  or  a  squire,  or  some 
such  thing.  Mr.  Tarkington  is  not  exactly  any  of 
these  things  in  his  own  "shire,"  but  he  does  fill  the 
chair  of  a  public-spirited  citizen  of  his  city.  He 
serves  on  sundry  committees  and  lends  his  name  to 
the  support  of  di\ers  charities.  A  point  more  to 
our  purpose  here,  however,  is  that  in  times  of  public 
crisis  he  becomes  something  of  a  publicist,  and  ma\' 
be  seen  now  and  then  hurrying  along  the  street  on 
his  way  to  the  newspaper  ofifke  with  an  article  in  his 
hand  to  be  presented  for  publication.  This  article 
usually  is  "set"  in  bold-faced  type  in  a  "box"  on 
the  front  page  next  day,  and  makes  very  mediocre 
reading. 

Now  and  then  Mr.  Tarkington  has  taken  little 
spins  in  the  field  of  the  essayist  and  journalist  but 
all  inspiration  appears  mysteriously  to  desert  him 
entirely  the  moment  he  turns  from  purely  creative 
writing.  And  the  effect,  in  most  cases,  of  his  "arti- 
cles" mainly  is  to  recall  to  the  reader's  mind  the 
epigrammatic  observation  upon  another  writer 
that  he  "had  no  talent  whatever — only  genius." 


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STEWART 

EDWARD 

WHITE 

Bv   FuGENH   F.  Saxton 


T  WAS  just  a  few  days  before  he 
sailed  from  New  York  for  his  second 
African  exploring  expedition  that  I 
had  a  talk  with  Stewart  Edward 
White  during  which  he  spoke  of  his 
boyhood,  his  early  school  days,  his  first  efforts 
at  writing,  and  many  other  things  which  so  illumi- 
nated the  man  and  made  clear  the  vigorous  growth 
of  his  art. 

Brought  up  in  Michigan,  which  was  at  that 
time  the  greatest  of  lumber  states,  Stewart  Edward 
White  lived  for  eight  or  nine  years  in  a  small  mill 
town,  whence  the  family  moved  to  Grand  Rapids, 
then  a  city  of  some  30,000  souls.  In  these  days  of 
hasty  education,  hasty  both  in  the  sense  of  infantile 
beginning  and  subsequent  cramming,  it  is  pleasant 
to  record  that  the  young  Stewart  Fdward  attended 
no  school  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  and 
that  when  he  did  finally  go,  so  far  from  being  be- 
hind his  fellows,  he  entered  junior  class  in  high 
school  with  boys  of  his  own  age  and  was  graduated 
at  eighteen,  president  of  his  class.  He  won  and  still 
holds  the  five-mile  running  record  of  the  school. 
A  few  years  later  he  was  graduated  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan.  You  may  be  tempted  to  ask 
what  became  of  the  eight  or  ten  years  which  most 
boys  spend  within  the  four  walls  of  a  school-room. 
These,  indeed,  were  some  of  the  most  fruitful  of 
his   life.     He   was   continually   in    the   woods   and 

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among  the  rivermen,  both  in  his  own  town  and 
in  \arious  lumber  camps  to  which  his  father  took 
him.  The  most  impressionable  years  of  his  life  were 
thrown  open  to  the  picturesque  beauty,  the  quick 
action  and  quicker  thought,  the  need  of  bodih' 
cleanness  and  alertness  of  mind  for  life  in  the  lumber 
camp.  No  grown-up  observation  or  study  could 
have  so  made  this  life  his  \  ery  own. 

From  1884  to  1888  (he  was  about  twelve  years 
old  then)  he  spent  in  California,  which,  says  Mr. 
White,  "was  a  very  new  sort  of  place."  These 
days  were  spent  largely  in  the  saddle,  with  many 
excursions  into  the  back  country,  where  he  saw 
much  of  the  wild  life  of  the  old  ranchers. 

Fromi  1888  to  '91  ornithology  attracted  him  and 
every  moment  that  he  could  spare  he  spent  in  the 
woods.  The  result  was  an  intimate  knowledge 
of  bird  life  and  six  or  seven  hundred  skins  now  pre- 
served in  the  Kent  Scientific  Museum  in  Grand 
Rapids,  Michigan.  But  perhaps  the  most  import- 
ant outcome  of  this  period  was  the  thirty  or  forty 
articles  on  birds  for  scientific  publications.  These 
were  Stewart  Edward  White's  first  published  writ- 
ings, and  the  pleasure  of  seeing  them  in  print  and 
the  confidence  their  publication  gave  him  had  a 
very  stimulating  effect.  One  of  these  papers, 
"The  Birds  of  Mackinac  Island,"  the  Ornitholo- 
gists' Union  brought  out  in  pamphlet  form  and  it  is 
to  this  that  Mr.  White  smilingly  refers  as  his  "first 
book." 

While  in  college  his  summer  vacations  had  been 

spent  cruising  the  Great  Lakes  in  a  28-foot  cutter 

sloop  and  thus  he  traversed  the  greater  part  of  the 

waters  of  these  backwoods.     Upon  graduating,  he 

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spent  six  months  in  a  packing-house,  acquiring 
much  information  and  less  wealth  at  the  rate  of 
six  dollars  a  week.  He  then  set  out  for  the  Black 
Hills  in  the  height  of  a  gold  rush — and  came  back 
broke.  This  was  not  an  unusual  experience;  but 
the  charge  did  not  lie  entirely  on  the  debit  side  of 
the  account  for  it  was  on  the  experience  gained  in 
this  venture  that  he  drew  for  material  in  writing 
"The  Claim  Jumpers"  and  "The  Westerners." 
Doubtless  much  that  is  superficially  a  loss  in  life  is  in 
reality  a  long-term  in\estment ,  earning  good  interest. 
I'hen  followed  a  winter  of  special  work  at  Co- 
lumbia University  under  Brander  Matthews  and  in 
some  law  courses  that  interested  him.  It  was  dur- 
ing this  time  that  Mr.  White  wrote,  as  part  of  his 
class  work,  a  story  entitled  "A  Man  and  His  Dog" 
which  Professor  Matthews  urged  him  to  try  to  sell. 
it  was  bought  by  Short  Stories  for  $15  and  was 
his  first  paid  story.  Others  followed  in  Lipptncotfs 
and  the  Argonaut,  "but  1  did  not  get  rich  at  it," 
remarked  Mr.  White.  Thirty-five  dollars  was  high- 
water  mark. 

With  some  notion  of  learning  how  to  become  a 
successful  author,  .Mr.  W  hite  next  secured  a  position 
with  A.  C.  McClurg.  book-sellers,  of  Chicago.  .\ 
better  knowledge  of  human  nature  and  nine  dollars 
a  week  were  about  the  only  net  results,  however, 
and  after  some  little  writing,  which  found  its  way 
into  review  columns  and  magazines.  White  set  out 
for  Hudson  Bay.  It  was  about  this  time  that  he 
completed  the  manuscript  of  "The  Claim  Jumpers," 
which  was  brought  out  by  .Appleton  and  had  a  very 
favorable  reception.  "The  Westerners,"  finished 
later,  was  bought  by  .\lunsey  for  serial  publication 

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for  $500.  The  author  was  paid  in  five-dollar  bills 
and  he  says  that  when  he  had  stuffed  the  money  in 
his  pockets  he  left  abruptly  for  fear  someone  would 
change  his  mind  and  want  all  that  money  back. 
The  publication  of  this  story  marked  the  turn  in 
the  tide.     Stewart  Edward  White  had  arrived. 

To  understand  the  creative  work  of  any  man  it  is 
essential  to  know  with  just  what  mind  he  comes  to 
the  facts  of  life.  Once  we  have  determined  this 
we  have  got  his  philosophy,  and  his  work  becomes 
intelligible,  not  piecemeal,  but  as  a  whole.  Perhaps 
the  most  important  thing  to  say  of  Mr.  White  is 
that  he  is  essentially  a  realist.  No  one  has  written 
so  well  or  so  understandingly  of  the  West,  its  people 
and  its  life,  as  he,  and  the  reason  is  not  far  to  seek. 

"A  man,"  he  says  somewhere,  "sl^ds  for  what 
he  is  and  does  and  not  for  what  he  pretends." 
Elsewhere,  speaking  of  the  West,  he  says:  "It  is 
optimistic  and  willing  to  take  an  experimental 
chance  with  new  things.  .  .  .  The  Westerner 
is  individual.  When  he  sets  about  the  sohing  of 
his  problems,  he  is  guided  by  the  circumstances  of 
the  case  and  not  by  precedent."  Again:  "I've 
simply  tried  to  present  the  West  as  it  is,  not  in 
accordance  with  the  artificial  demands  of  dramatic 
plot,  or  lave  interest,  or  artistic  balance,  or  anything 
else  that  would  interfere  with  a  true  picture." 

"The  Blazed  Trail"  was  written  in  a  lumber  camp 
in  the  depth  of  a  Northern  winter.  The  only  hours 
Mr.  White  could  spare  for  writing  were  in  the  early 
morning,  so  he  would  begin  at  4  a.  m.  and  write 
till  8  o'clock,  then  put  on  his  snowshoes  and  go 
out  for  a  day's  lumbering. 

"Conjuror's  House"  was   written   in    New    ^'ork 

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after  the  author's  return  from  the  Hudson  Bay 
country.  The  story  had  fine  dramatic  possibilities 
and  the  book  was  dramatized  by  George  Broad- 
hurst,  and  Robert  Edeson  played  the  leading  role 
during  its  first  season. 

It  was  during  the  ruffed  grouse  season  in  Michi- 
gan that  "The  Silent  Places"  was  written.  .Mr. 
White  was  busily  engaged  in  training  a  Llewellyn 
setter  at  the  time,  and  gave  what  intervals  this 
important  occupation  afforded  to  the  writing  of  the 
book.  He  laughingly  refers  to  this  book  as  the  best 
example  of  "literary  atmosphere"  that  he  knows 
and  thereby  hangs  a  story.  His  aunt  began  reading 
"Silent  Places"  one  summer  evening  and  after  an 
hour  or  more  was  observed  to  get  up,  quite  absorbed 
and  book  in  hand,  draw  a  shawl  about  her  shoulders, 
and  resume  her  reading. 

"The  Forest"  Mr.  White  regards  as  one  of  the 
most  instructive  books  he  has  ever  written — that 
is,  for  himself.  It  was  the  story  of  a  canoe  trip 
and  was  published  serially  in  the  Outlook.  In 
the  course  of  the  narrati\e  the  author  innocently 
mentioned  that  he  had  discovered  a  good,  tight 
tent  and  would  be  glad  to  tell  any  one  really  inter- 
ested where  it  could  be  had.  In  the  first  year  that 
the  book  was  out  he  recei\ed  i  loo  inquiries  and 
they  are  still  coming. 

The  immediate  success  of  "The  Forest"  led  to 
the  wTiting  of  "The  Mountains"  which  followed  in 
general  outline  the  ad\entures  of  a  five  months' 
camping  trip  in  the  Sierras  of  California. 

"The  Mystery"  was  written  in  collaboration  with 
Samuel  Hopkins  Adams  and  was  the  result  of  an 
effort   to    account    for   the    mystery   of    the    Marie. 

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Celeste.  Adams  was  \isiting  W  hite  at  the  time 
and  they  wrote  the  story  together.  After  it  was 
completed  they  divided  the  spoils  and  White  got 
two  characters,  Handy  Solomon  and  Darrow. 
Adams  agreed  not  to  kill  off  Darrow  in  any  future 
stories.  W  hite  used  Handy  Solomon,  at  an  earlier 
age.  in  "Arizona  Nights"  and  Darrow  in  "The  Sign 
at  Six." 

'".Arizona  Nights"  is  an  attempt  to  portray  the 
a\erage  life  in  the  cattle  country;  "Bobby  Orde"' 
is  the  small  boy  stripped  of  sentimental  twaddle; 
"The  Rivermian,"  while  not  a  sequel  to  "Ihe 
Blazed  Trail,"  is  supplementary  to  it;  "The  Rules 
of  the  Game"  is  of  the  mountain  life  of  California, 
telling  the  beginnings  of  the  Forest  Service  and 
pointing  out  the  injustice  of  judging  long-past 
affairs  by  modern  and  altered  standards  of  criticism. 
The  two  recent  \oIumes  on  .Africa,  "  In  the  Land  of 
Footprints,"  and  ".African  Camp  Fires,"  while  at 
first  glance  so  far  remo\ed  from  the  West  he  has 
always  pictured,  are  yet  quite  in  the  spirit  of  his 
best  work  for  the  simple  reason  that  he  has  written 
neither  tra\el  books  nor  big  game  books,  but  faith- 
ful accounts  of  a  \ery  wonderful  country  which  he 
really  understands  and  is  able  to  interpret. 

In  reply  to  a  question  as  to  what  drew  him  to 
Africa,  Mr.  White  said:  "My  answer  to  that  is 
pretty  general.  1  went  because  1  wanted  to. 
About  once  in  so  often  the  wheels  get  rusty  and  I 
have  to  get  up  and  do  something  real  or  else  blow 
up.  Africa  seemed  to  me  a  pretty  real  thing. 
Before  1  went  1  read  at  least  twenty  books  about 
it  and  yet  1  got  no  mental  image  of  what  I  was  going 
to  see.      That    fact    accounts    for   these   books.     I 

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have  tried  to  tell  in  plain  words  what  an  ordinary 
person  would  see  there." 

Of  "Gold"  some  very  interesting  things  may  be 
said.  This  is  the  beginning  of  the  epic  of  Cali- 
fornia, which  -Mr.  White  plans  to  tell  in  three  stories. 
Each  book  is  to  stand  by  itself,  the  only  unity  being 
the  presentation  in  successive  volumes  of  the  won- 
derful story  of  California.  The  three  periods  to  be 
covered  are:  184c)  to  the  Civil  War,  or  the  building 
days;  1884  to  1890,  or  the  days  of  Eastern  immigra- 
tion; and  the  present  time  when,  the  material 
foundations  established,  California  has  at  last  an 
opportunity  to  turn  its  energies  toward  the  recon- 
struction of  its  government. 

"Gold"  is  a  picture  of  the  madness  of  '49  when 
thousands  rushed  \\  est  by  way  of  Panama  and  the 
Horn  in  search  of  the  treasure  that  was  supposed 
to  be  lying  ankle  deep  all  over  the  coast.  The 
story  concerns  the  adventures  of  a  little  part}-  of 
four  who  set  out  from  New  York  to  make  their  for- 
tunes and  no  one  who  reads  it  will  forget  the  won- 
derful picture  of  Panama,  swarming  with  adven- 
turers, or  the  scenes  in  San  Francisco,  a  mushroom 
city  buzzing  like  a  bazaar  and  filled  to  overflowing 
with  a  gold-mad  population  drawn  from  every  con- 
dition of  society. 

The  second  book  of  the  California  series  is  "I'he 
Gray  Dawn."  In  it  is  told  the  story  of  the  develop- 
ment of  California  from  a  miners'  camp  to  a  state 
with  a  stable  government.  The  '49er  doffs  his 
flannel  shirt  and  puts  on  a  collar  and  a  top  hat. 

Succeeding  the  California  books  are  two  that 
come  naturally  as  a  result  of  his  expeditions  to 
Africa.    "The    Leopard    Woman"    and     "Simba" 

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are  properly  sketched  together  because  they  are 
both  books  about  life  in  Africa  showing  the  effort 
of  white  civilization  on  the  natives  and  also  the 
reverse.  "The  Leopard  Woman"  is  a  novel. 
"Simba"  a  book  of  short  stories,  both  so  full  of 
the  spirit  of  the  dark  continent  that  the  reader 
imagines  himself  under  the  blazing  sun  of  the 
African  sky  hearing  the  vibrating  roar  of  the 
lions. 


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GENE 
STRATTON-PORTER 

A  Little  Story  of  the  UJc  ami  li'ork 
and  Ideals  of  "The  Bird  H'oman" 

HER  CHILDHOOD  AND  EDUCAIION 

O  A  mother  at  forty-six  and  a  father 
at  fifty,  each  at  intellectual  top- 
I  notch,  every  faculty  having  been 
stirred  for  years  by  the  dire  stress 
of  Civil  War,  and.  the  period  im- 
mediately following,  the  author  was  born.  From 
childhood  she  recalls  "thinking  things  which  she 
felt  should  be  sa\ed,"  and  frequently  tugging  at 
her  mother's  skirls  and  begging  her  to  "set  down" 
what  the  child  considered  stories  and  poems.  Most 
of  these  were  some  big  fact  in  nature  that  thrilled 
her,  usually  expressed  in  Biblical  terms;  for  the 
Bible  was  read  twice  a  day  before  the  family  and 
helpers,  and  an  a\erage  of  three  services  were 
attended  on  Sunday. 

"No  other  farm  was  e\er  quite  so  lovely  as  the 
one  on  which  1  was  born  after  this  father  and  mother 
had  spent  twenty-five  \'ears  beautifying  it,"  says 
the  author.  It  was  called  "Hopewell"  after  the 
home  of  some  of  her  father's  F^ritish  ancestors. 

So  it  happened  that,  led  by  impulse  and  aided 
by  an  escape  from  the  training  given  her  sisters, 
this  youngest  child  of  a  numerous  household  spent 
her  waking  hours  with  the  wild.  She  followed 
her  father  and  the  boys  afield,  and  when  tired 
out  slept  on  their  coats  in  fence  corners,  often 
awaking  with  shy  creatures  peering  into  her  face. 
She  wandered  where  she  pleased,  amusing  herself 
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with  birds,  flowers,  insects,  and  plays  she  invented. 
She  made  special  pets  of  the  birds,  locating  nest 
after  nest,  and  immediately  projecting  herself  into 
the  daily  life  of  the  occupants.  "No  one,"  she 
says,  "ever  taught  me  more  than  that  the  birds 
were  useful,  a  gift  of  God  for  our  protection  from 
insect  pests  on  fruit  and  crops;  and  a  gift  of  Grace 
in  their  beauty  and  music,  things  to  be  rigidly 
protected. 

"Near  the  time  of  my  mother's  passing  we  moved 
from  Hopewell  to  the  city  of  Wabash  in  order  that 
she  might  have  constant  medical  attention,  and  the 
younger  children  better  opportunities  for  schooling. 
Here  we  had  magazines  and  more  books  in  which 
I  was  interested." 

Marriage,  a  home  of  her  own,  and  a  daughter, 
for  a  time  filled  the  author's  hands,  but  never  her 
whole  heart  and  brain.  The  book  fever  lay  dor- 
mant awhile,  and  then  it  became  again  a  compelling 
influence,  it  dominated  the  life  she  lived,  the  cabin 
she  designed  for  their  home,  and  the  books  she  read. 
When  her  daughter  was  old  enough  to  go  to  school, 
Mrs.  Porter's  time  came.  Speaking  of  this  period, 
she  says:  "1  could  not  afford  a  maid,  but  I  was 
very  strong,  vital  to  the  marrow,  and  1  knew  how  to 
manage  life  to  make  it  meet  my  needs,  thanks  to 
even  the  small  amount  1  had  seen  of  my  mother. 
1  kept  a  cabin  of  fourteen  rooms,  and  kept  it  im- 
maculate. I  made  most  of  my  daughter's  clothes, 
I  kept  a  conservatory  in  which  there  bloomed  from 
three  to  six  hundred  bulbs  every  winter,  tended  a 
house  of  canaries  and  linnets,  and  cooked  and 
washed  dishes,  besides,  three  times  a  day." 

Thus  had  Mrs.  Porter  made  time  to  study  and  to 
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write  and  editors  began  to  accept  what  she  sent 
them  with  little  if  any  changes.  She  began  by  send- 
ing photographic  and  natural  history  hints  to 
Recreation,  and  with  the  first  installment  was  asked 
to  take  charge  of  the  department  and  furnish  mate- 
rial each  month.  The  second  year  she  accepted  a 
place  on  the  natural  history  staff  of  Outing,  working 
closely  with  Mr.  Caspar  W  hitney.  .After  a  year  of 
this  helpful  experience  Mrs.  Porter  begun  to  turn 
her  attention  to  what  she  calls  "nature  studies 
sugar  coated  with  fiction."  Mixing  some  child- 
hood fact  with  a  large  degree  of  grown-up  fiction, 
she  wrote  a  little  story  entitled  "Laddie,  the  Prin- 
cess and  the  Pie." 

"Every  fair  day  1  spent  afield,"  she  says,  "and 
my  little  black  horse  and  load  of  cameras,  ropes, 
and  ladders  became  a  familiar  sight  to  the  country 
folk  of  the  Limberlost,  in  Rainbow  Bottom,  the 
Canoper,  on  the  banks  of  the  Wabash,  in  woods  and 
thickets  and  beside  the  roads,  but  few  people  under- 
stood what  1  was  trying  to  do,  none  of  them  what 
it  would  mean  were  I  to  succeed.  Being  so  afraid 
of  failure  and  the  inevitable  ridicule  in  a  community 
where  1  was  already  severely  criticised  on  account 
of  my  ideas  of  housekeeping,  dress,  and  social 
customs,  1  purposely  kept  everything  1  did  as  quiet 
as  possible.  It  had  to  be  known  that  1  was  inter- 
ested in  everything  afield,  and  making  pictures: 
also  that  I  was  writing  field  sketches  for  nature 
Dublications,  but  little  was  thought  of  it,  save  as 
one  more  peculiarity'  in  me.  So  when  my  little 
story  was  finished  1  went  to  our  store  and  looked 
over  the  magazines.  1  chose  one  to  which  we  did 
not   subscribe,    having   an   attractive   cover,    good 

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tvpe,  and  paper,  and  on  the  back  of  an  old  envelope, 
behind  the  counter,  1  scribbled:  Perriton  Maxwell, 
ii6  Nassau  St.,  New  York,  and  sent  my  story  on 
its  way. 

"That  was  early  May;  all  summer  I  waited.  1 
had  heard  that  it  required  a  long  time  for  an  editor 
to  read  and  to  pass  on  a  matter  sent  to  him*  but  my 
waiting  did  seem  out  of  all  reason. 

"Then  one  day  in  September  I  went  into  our 
store  on  an  errand  and  the  manager  said  to  me: 
'1  read  your  story  in  the  Metropolitan  last  night. 
It  was  great!  Did  you  ever  write  any  fiction 
before?  ' " 

A  second  story  and  its  pictures  published  in  the 
Metropolitan  also  were  much  praised,  and  in  the 
following  year  the  author  was  asked  for  several 
stories,  and  even  used  bird  pictures  and  natural 
history  sketches,  quite  an  innovation  for  a  magazine 
at  that  time.  With  this  encouragement  she  wrote 
and  illustrated  a  short  story  of  about  ten  thousand 
words,  and  sent  it  to  the  Century.  Richard  Wat- 
son Gilder  advised  Mrs.  Porter  to  enlarge  it  to 
book  size,  which  she  did.  This  book  is  "The 
Cardinal"  which  was  published  with  very  beautiful 
halftones,  and  cardinal  buckram  cover. 

"The  Cardinal"  was  published  in  June  of  1903. 
On  the  2oth  of  October,  1904,  "Freckles"  appeared. 
Mrs.  Porter  had  been  delving  afield  with  all  her 
heart  and  strength  for  several  years,  and  in  the 
course  of  her  work  had  spent  every  alternate  day 
for  three  months  in  the  Limberlost  swamp,  making 
a  series  of  studies  of  the  nest  of  a  black  vulture. 
The  nucleus  of  the  book  was  the  finding  and 
photographing  every  day  of  a  vulture's  nest  and 
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nestling,  but  the  story  itself  originated  from  the 
fact  that  one  day,  while  leaving  the  swamp,  a  big 
feather  with  a  shaft  more  than  twenty  inches  long 
came  spinning  and  whirling  earthward  and  fell  in  the 
author's  path.  Instantly  she  looked  upward  to 
locate  the  bird,  which  from  the  size  and  formation 
of  the  quill  could  ha\e  been  nothing  but  an  eagle; 
her  eyes,  well  trained  and  fairly  keen  though  they 
were,  could  not  see  the  bird,  which  must  have  been 
soaring  above  range.  Familiar  with  the  life  of  the 
vulture  family,  the  author  changed  the  bird  from 
which  the  feather  fell  to  that  described  in  "Freck- 
les." Mrs.  Porter  had  the  old  swamp  at  that  time 
practically  untouched,  and  all  its  traditions  to  work 
upon  and  stores  of  natural  history  material. 

"  My  years  of  nature  work  have  not  been  without 
considerable  insight  into  human  nature  as  well," 
continued  Mrs.  Porter.  "1  know  its  failings,  its 
inborn  tendencies,  its  weaknesses,  its  failures,  its 
depth  of  crime;  and  the  people  who  feel  called  upon 
to  spend  their  time  analyzing,  digging  into,  and 
uncovering  these  sources  of  depravity  have  that 
privilege,  more's  the  pity!  If  1  had  my  way  about 
it,  this  is  a  privilege  no  one  could  have  in  books 
intended  for  indiscriminate  circulation.  I  stand 
squarely  for  book  censorship,  and  1  firmly  believe 
that  with  a  few  more  years  of  such  books,  as  half  a 
dozen  1  could  mention,  public  opinion  will  demand 
this  very  thing.  My  life  has  been  fortunate  in  ont- 
glad  way:  1  ha\'e  lived  mostly  in  the  country  and 
worked  in  the  woods.  For  every  bad  man  and 
woman  I  have  ever  known,  1  have  met,  lived  with, 
and  am  intimately  acquainted  with  an  overwhelm- 
ing number  of  thoroughly  clean  and  decent  people 

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who  still  belie\e  in  God  and  cherish  high  ideals, 
and  //  is  upon  the  lives  of  these  that  I  base  n'hat  I 
write.  To  contend  that  this  does  not  produce  a 
picture  true  to  life  is  idiocy.  It  does.  It  produces 
a  picture  true  to  ideal  life;  to  the  best  that  good 
men  and  good  women  can  do  at  level  best. 

"  I  care  very  little  for  the  magazine  or  newspaper 
critics  who  proclaim  that  there  is  no  such  thing  as 
a  moral  man,  and  that  my  pictures  of  life  are  sen- 
timental and  idealized.  They  are!  .And  I  glory 
in  them!  They  are  straight,  living  pictures  from 
the  lives  of  men  and  women  of  morals,  honor,  and 
loving  kindness.  They  form  'idealized  pictures  of 
life'  because  they  are  copies  from  life  where  it 
touches  religion,  chastity,  lo\e,  home,  and  hope  of 
Heaven  ultimately.  None  of  these  roads  leads  to 
publicity  and  the  divorce  court.  They  all  end  in 
the  shelter  and  seclusion  of  a  home." 

In  .August  of  1913  the  author's  novel,  "Laddie," 
was  published  in  New  York,  London,  Sydney,  and 
Toronto  simultaneously.  Of  this  book  the  author 
said:  "Of  truth,  the  home  I  describe  in  this  book 
1  knew  to  the  last  grain  of  wood  in  the  doors,  and  1 
painted  it  with  absolute  accuracy;  and  many  of 
the  people  I  described  1  knew  more  intimately  than 
1  ever  have  known  any  others." 

Mrs.  Porter  has  written  ten  books  and  each  was 
written,  she  says,  from  her  heart's  best  impulses. 
They  are  as  clean  and  helpful  as  she  knew  how  to 
make  them,  and  as  beautiful  and  interesting.  She 
has  never  spared  herself  in  the  least  degree,  mind  or 
body,  when  it  came  to  giving  her  best,  and  she  has 
never  considered  money  in  relation  to  what  she 
was  writing. 

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During  I  he  hard  work  and  exposure  of  those 
early  years,  during  the  rainy  days  and  many  nights 
in  the  darkroom,  she  went  straight  ahead  with 
field  work,  sending  around  the  globe  for  books  and 
delving  to  secure  material  for  such  books  as  "  Birds 
of  the  Bible,"  "Music  of  the  Wild,"  and  "Moths 
of  the  Limberlost."  Every  day  was  devoted  to  such 
work  she  could  do,  and  with  exceeding  joy.  She 
could  do  it  better  pictorially,  on  account  of  her 
lifelong  knowledge  of  living  things  afield,  than  any 
other  woman  had  as  yet  had  the  strength  and  nerve 
to  do  it.  it  was  work  in  which  she  gloried,  and  she 
persisted.  "Had  I  been  working  for  money," 
comments  the  author,  "not  one  of  these  books 
ever  would  have  been  written  or  an  illustration 
made." 

When  the  public  had  disco\ered  her  and  given 
generous  approval  to  "A  Girl  of  the  Limberlost," 
when/' The  Harvester"  had  established  a  new  record, 
that  would  have  been  the  time  for  the  author  to 
prove  her  commercialism  by  dropping  nature  work, 
and  plunging  headlong  into  books  it  would  pay  to 
write,  and  for  which  many  publishers  were  offering 
alluring  sums.  Mrs.  Porter's  answer  was  the  issu- 
ing of  such  books  as  "Music  of  the  Wild"  and 
"Moths  of  the   Limberlost." 

"To  my  way  of  thinking  and  working  the  great- 
est service  a  piece  of  fiction  can  do  any  reader  is  to 
leave  him  with  a  higher  ideal  of  life  than  he  had 
when  he  began.  If  in  one  small  degree  it  shows 
him  where  he  can  be  a  gentler,  saner,  cleaner, 
kindlier  man,  it  is  a  wonder-working  book,  if  it 
opens  his  eyes  to  one  beauty  in  nature  he  never  saw 
for  himself,  and  leads  him  one  step  toward  the  God 

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of  the  Universe,  it  is  a  beneficial  book,  for  one  step 
into  the  miracles  of  nature  leads  to  that  long  walk, 
the  glories  of  which  so  strengthen  even  a  boy  who 
thinks  he  is  dying  that  he  faces  his  struggle  like  a 
gladiator. 

"Based  on  this  plan  of  work  and  life  1  have  writ- 
ten ten  books,  and  'please  God  1  live  so  long,'  1 
shall  write  ten  more.  Possibly  every  one  of  them 
will  be  located  in  northern  Indiana.  Each  one 
will  be  filled  with  all  the  field  and  woods  legiti- 
mately falling  to  its  location  and  peopled  with  the 
best  men  and  women  1  have  known." 


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SELMA 
LAGERLOF 

By  Harry  E.  Maule 


•    ^  ONORED    by    her    own  generation 

.    f;     "  and  in  her  own  country  no  less  than 

^'  •'i^'c;;w.  -'^l  throughout  the  whole  civilized  world, 
Sil?^"^;n  Selma  Lagerlof  has  fulfilled  the 
-■  .rVfcy.^-^  happy    portent   of   her   name.    "For 


Lagerlof,  literally  translated,  means  laurel  leaf,  and 
the  absorbing  life  story  of  this  quiet,  calm-eyed  lit- 
tle Swedish  woman  carries  the  reader  from  one 
crowning  with  laurel  to  the  next.  The  only 
woman  to  win  the  Nobel  Prize  for  Literature,  she 
shortly  after  that  event  was  made  a  member  of 
the  exclusive  Swedish  Academy,  and  therefore  is 
the  only  woman  ever  to  sit  as  one  of  those  eighteen 
Immortals. 

Born  at  a  time  when  the  cold  star  of  realism  was 
in  the  ascendant  in  Scandinavian  literature,  her 
soul  filled  with  idealism,  and  steeped  in  the  romance 
of  ancient  Northland  sagas,  she  stands  forth  a 
brilliant  exception  to  the  materialism  of  her  con- 
temporaries. 

In  all  her  work  Miss  Lagerlof 's  heart  has  turned 
with  greatest  understanding  to  that  life  in  which 
she  was  born,  the  life  of  rural  Sweden  teeming  with 
tradition,  responsive  always  to  the  onslaughts  and 
the  miracles  of  Nature. 

Here  she  has  found  material,  which,  though 
local  in  its  outward  aspects,  she  has  been  able  to 
clothe    with    that    universal    human    significance 

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which  may  be  found  in  nearly  everything  she 
writes. 

So  here  at  Marbacka  Manor,  Sunne,  in  the  prov- 
ince of  Varmland,  Sweden,  into  a  large  family  of 
brothers  and  sisters  on  November  20,  1858,  was 
born  the  little  Selma  Ottiliana  Louisa  Lagerlof. 

Springing  from  Swedish  gentlefolk  of  the  land- 
owner class  (her  father  was  a  retired  army  otficer, 
and  her  mother  was  descended  from  a  long  line  of 
distinguished  clergymen)  Miss  Lagerlof  from  earliest 
childhood  seemed  destined  for  the  part  of  an  on- 
looker and  an  interpreter  of  life.  She  never  was 
strong  enough  to  run  wild  over  the  farm  with  the 
other  children  of  the  family,  and  so,  sitting  at  home 
in  a  deep  chimney  corner  with  the  old  folks  and  her 
books,  she  let  her  childish  imagination  carry  her  off 
on  excursions  which  were  denied  the  physically 
more  active  youngsters. 

At  twenty  she  went  to  Stockholm  to  take  a  com- 
petive  examination  for  entrance  to  the  Teachers' 
College.  Her  studies  completed,  she  received  an 
appointment  to  teach  in  the  Grammar  School  for 
Girls  at  Landskrona,  Province  of  Skane.  There 
she  hoped  to  find  time  for  literary  work,  and  much 
that  she  did  then  was  later  turned  to  good  purpose, 
for  here  it  was  that  she  developed  the  central  idea 
of  her  great  classic  "Gosta  Berling's  Saga."  In 
1890  it  was  sent  in  incomplete  form  to  the  Swedish 
magazine  Idiiti  and  was  awarded  a  prize.  This 
attracted  the  attention  of  the  Baroness  Adiersparre 
who  financed  the  young  teacher  while  she  completed 
the    work. 

in  spite  of  severe  handicaps  her  very  first  work 
was  crowned  with  distinguished  success,  foreshadow- 

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ing  that  fate  which  so  truly  fulfills  the  promise  of 
her  name. 

To  place  her  in  a  word  is  of  course  impossible, 
yet  one  of  her  admirers  has  said  that,  gazing 
down  a  forest  valley  dotted  with  little  red-roofed 
Swedish  farmhouses  and  black-roofed  churches 
she  knows  exactly  what  is  transpiring  within. 
Moreover,  it  might  further  be  said  that  she 
knows  just  what  is  going  on  in  the  hearts  of  the 
inhabitants. 

Viewing  her  work  as  a  whole  it  reveals  a  biblical 
simplicity  of  style,  the  trusting  heart  of  a  child, 
and  at  the  same  time  the  mystic  insight  of  a  seer. 
So  deep  is  her  message  as  J.  B.  Kerfoot  said  in  Life 
that,  "  the  wise  cannot  find  bottom  nor  the  child  get 
beyond  its  depth." 

In  her  choice  of  material  Dr.  Lagerlof  usually 
selects  the  common  clay  of  mankind,  but  in  the 
infinite  fineness  of  her  tooling  we  see  the  object 
in  all  its  universality,  so  that  every  heart  is  touched, 
every  mind  is  led  to  understand  the  inscrutable 
ways  of  life  with  her  people. 

"Gosta  Berling"  was  published  in  book  form 
in  Sweden  in  1894.  Idealism  in  a  world  of  realism; 
a  romance  amidst  the  smother  of  gray  Scandina- 
\ian  pessimism,  this  saga  of  Gosta  Berling,  poet, 
philosopher,  carefree  vagabond  of  Loven's  sunny 
shores,  became  the  epic  of  Varmland,  and  her 
countrymen  gave  full  honor  to  its  writer.  Soon 
the  book  was  translated  and  published  in  all  the 
other  European  countries.  In  1899  it  appeared  in 
the  United  States  in  the  translation  of  Pauline 
Bancroft  Flach. 

Of  Miss   Lagerlof 's  three  great   novels,   "Gosta 

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Berling,"  "Jerusalem,"  and  "The  Emperor  of 
Portugallia,"  it  must  forexer  remain  a  matter  of 
individual  taste  as  to  which  is  the  best.  But 
whichever  one  of  these  may  be  chosen  by  the 
critic,  one  will  always  be  tempted  to  place  on  a  par 
with  it  her  great  juvenile  classics  "The  Wonderful 
Adventures  of  Nils"  and  "The  Further  Adven- 
tures of  Nils." 

Consult  the  map  of  modern  Sweden  and  in  the 
province  of  Varmland  one  finds  Lake  Fryken, 
and  upon  its  shores  the  village  of  Sunne.  It  is 
here  in  the  old  rectory,  Marbacka  Manor,  that 
Miss  Lagerlof  grew  to  womanhood,  and  it  is  here 
that  she  now  lives.  This  and  the  country  round- 
about, is  the  setting  for  "Gosta  Berling."  Lake 
Fryken  is  Lake  Loven,  or,  as  she  so  frequently  calls 
it  "Long  Lake,"  and  Marbacka  is  Liljecrona's  Lov- 
dalla  of  "Gosta  Berling,"  "Liljecrona's  Home" 
and  of  so  many  other  of  her  stories. 

Miss  Lagerlof's  ne.xt  work,  a  book  of  short 
stories  entitled  "Invisible  Links,"  was  published 
in  1894.  Many  of  the  stories  are  based  on  the  old 
Swedish  sagas,  and  in  all  of  them  we  feel  the  very 
spirit  of  the  North;  the  romance  which  broods 
over  the  desolate  forests  and  peoples  the  wilderness 
with  supernatural  beings. 

At  this  time  King  Oscar  of  Sweden  and  his  son 
Prince  Eugen  (widely  known  as  a  talented  and 
successful  landscape  painter)  extended  financial 
aid  to  Miss  Lagerlof  who  also  was  awarded  at  this 
time  a  small  stipend  by  the  Swedish  Academy  in 
acknowledgment  of  her  achievements.  The  same 
year,  in  company  with  Sophie  Elkan,  the  author, 
she  made  her  first  trip  to  Italy.     The  immediate 

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result  of  that  trip  was  '"  1  he  Miracles  of  Antichrist," 
published  in  Sweden  in  1897,  and  in  this  country  in 
Mrs.  Flach's  translation  in  the  spring  of  1899. 

"From  a  Swedish  Homestead,"  Miss  Lagerlof's 
next  book,  was  published  in  1899,  ^^^  ^'^s  brought 
out  in  this  country  in  the  Fnglish  of  Jessie  Broch- 
ner  in  1901. 

Miss  Lagerl()f  then  made  her  first  trip  to  the 
Orient  from  which  came  her  second  great  classic, 
"Jerusalem."  A  few  years  before  a  company  of 
peasants  from  Nas,  a  parish  of  the  sturdy  rural 
district  of  Dalecarlia  had  made  a  pilgrimage  to 
Jerusalem  in  order  to  join  a  colony  formed  by  a 
Mrs.  Edward  Gordon  of  Chicago  who  had  estab- 
lished a  mission  there  made  up  for  the  most  part 
of  Swedish-Americans. 

Thus  the  historical  background  of  "Jerusalem." 
Their  aim  was  practical  as  well  as  spiritual,  for 
the  mission  conducted  a  school,  a  hospital,  and 
otherwise  aided  in  much-needed  public  works. 

Not  only  were  their  early  experiences  in  Jerusa- 
lem of  the  most  harrowing  nature  through  the 
rigours  of  the  unaccustomed  climate,  the  fevers 
which  assailed  them,  :ind  the  scanty  bounty  of  a 
desert  land  but  also  there  came  back  to  Sweden 
rumors  of  the  most  alarming  sort  of  the  conduct 
of  the  pilgrims  in  the  HoyI  Land. 

To  ascertain  the  truth  of  these  rumors,  and  to 
probe  the  cause  of  the  saying  then  pre\alent  in 
Sweden,  that  "Jerusalem  kills,"  Miss  Lagerlof 
made  the  journey  to  Palestine  in  1899- 1900. 

Only  too  truly  did  she  substantiate  the  grim 
northern  acceptance  of  an  inevitable  fate  in  the 
Holy    Land.    "Jerusalem    kills!"     It    was    all    too 

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true;  for  the  unhappy  Dalecarlians,  removed  from- 
their  bracing  northern  climate,  fell  an  easy  pre\' 
to  the  hardships  of  the  desert.  Death  had  stalked 
among  them,  but  with  that  determination  which 
has  won  for  the  Dalecarlians  the  term  of  "the 
backbone  of  the  Swedish  nation"  they  held  to  their 
task.  As  to  the  charges,  it  was  substantiated 
that  the  Swedish  mission  in  its  liberal  policy  to- 
ward Christian  and  Moslem  alike  had  earned  the 
enmity  of  the  other  missions  there,  making  easy 
traffic  for  the  stories  which  caused  such  heartache 
in  the  Dalecarlian  homesteads. 

Perhaps  one  of  the  greatest  tests  of  Miss  Lager- 
lof's  artistry  was  the  task  of  weaving  into  a  work 
of  fiction  this  background  of  facts,  which  were  at 
the  time  a  matter  of  pressing  national  importance. 

On  her  return  from  the  Holy  Land,  Miss  Lagerlof 
wrote  the  first  volume  of  "Jerusalem,"  and  had  the 
satisfaction  of  seeing  it  hailed  as  her  masterpiece. 
The  book  was  published  in  Sweden  in  1901  but  was 
not  brought  out  in  this  country  until  191  5  in  the 
English  of  Velma  Swanston  Howard  who  has  trans- 
lated all  of  Miss  Lagerlof's  later  work  and  who  is 
her  authorized  representative  in  this  country. 

Just  here  a  word  in  regard  to  Mrs.  Howard's 
untiring  work  in  the  cause  of  Selma  Lagerlof  in 
.America  may  perhaps  be  in  order.  She  is  Swedish 
born  but  at  an  early  age  came  to  this  country. 
She  was  reared  in  constant  association  with  both 
Swedish  and  English  scholars  and  is  equally  at 
home  in  both  languages.  .\s  a  young  woman  she 
returned  to  Sweden  where  she  worked  for  some 
years   as   a   journalist,    somewhat   astounding   the 

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leisurely  Scandinavians  with  her  American  methods 
of  newspaper  work.  One  of  her  first  assignments 
— a  "scoop"  on  her  Swedish  colleagues — was  an 
interview  with  her  literary  idol,  Selma  Lagerlof. 
This  meeting  was  the  first  of  many  that  developed 
a  warm  friendship  between  author  and  translator. 

The  second  volume,  called  in  Swedish  "Jerusa- 
lem in  the  Holy  Land,"  deals  with  the  lives  of  the 
Halgumists  in  Palestine,  but  ends  as  the  first  volume 
began  in  the  ancient  farmhouse  of  the  Ingmarssons. 
Phis  was  published  in  Sweden  in  1902,  the  year 
following  "Jerusalem  in  Dalecarlia."  It  was  pub- 
lished in  1918  in  America  under  the  title  "The 
Holy  City;  Jerusalem  Vol  II." 

.Miss  Lagerlof 's  "Christ  Legends"  was  published 
in  1904  and  was  brought  out  in  this  country  in  .Mrs. 
Howard's  translation  in  1908. 

The  Swedish  school  authorities  at  this  time 
feeling  the  need  of  a  school  reader  which  would 
serve  to  keep  alive  the  rich  store  of  folk  lore  and 
historic  tradition  which  is  the  background  of 
Swedish  life,  and  at  the  same  time  teach  the  won- 
ders of  the  country's  geography,  commissioned 
.Miss  Lagerlof  to  write  such  a  book.  "The  Won- 
derful Adventures  of  Nils"  and  "The  Further 
Adventures  of  Nils"  (1906  and  1907J  were  the 
result. 

Fhe  year  following,  1908,  appeared  "The  Girl 
From  the  Marsh  Croft."  "  Liljecrona's  Home" 
appeared  in    191  1. 

"The  Emperor  of  Portugallia"  appeared  in 
Sweden  in  1914,  and  in  this  country  in  .Mrs.  How- 
ard's translation  in  19 16. 

Here  at  Marbacka  and  at  her  winter  home  in 

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Falun,  Dalarre,  she  spends  her  time,  writing  much 
less  than  of  old  now  for  the  demands  upon  her  time 
and  energy  are  many  and  great.  Both  Marbacka 
and  Falun  are  typical  Swedish  homes.  The  winter 
home  at  Falun  is  a  picturesque  old  cottage  which 
was  built  nearly  200  years  ago,  and  unlike  the  pre- 
vailing austere  architecture  of  the  province  it  has  a 
quaint  beauty  and  charm  that  sets  it  apart  from  its 
neighbors. 

Within  is  an  atmosphere  of  simple  dignity,  of 
warm  hospitality,  for  Miss  Lagerlof  lives  and  works 
amidst  surroundings  in  harmony  with  her  person- 
ality. From  beneath  a  crown  of  white  hair  her 
eyes  look  at  and  through  one,  kindly  yet  penetrating, 
and  always  ready  to  twinkle  happily  at  the  humor 
which  she  sees  in  life.  .\t  Marbacka  Manor,  the 
home  of  her  youth,  which  she  rebought  after  twenty 
years'  absence,  she  continues  to  employ,  to  the  cha- 
grin of  its  overseer,  a  corps  of  aged  servitors  whose 
youth  went  to  the  de\  elopment  of  the  estate.  Her 
sixty-one  fruitful  years  find  her  with  a  generous 
income  from  her  books  and  plays,  and  it  is  with  her 
a  joy  to  spend  her  time  and  her  substance  in  the 
service  of  humanity  and  of  her  loved  ones. 


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KATHLEEN  NORRIS 


KATHLEEN 
NORRIS* 

The  Story  of  the  Career  of  a  Woman 
\'ovelist  of  Rare  Charm  and  Pozirr 

By  Alice  Faith  Powf.i.l 


'ATHLEEN  NORRIS  upsets  all   our 

accepted  ideas  of  how  a    novelist    is 

made.       Probably     it     is     the     very 

"■^1  absence    of    those    influences    which 

'^^  usually   lead    a    man    or   woman    to 


choose  writing  as  a  vocation  that  makes  her  work 
so  unique  and  individual  among  the  authors  of  to- 
day. With  the  exception  of  five  months  spent 
in  taking  a  literary  course  at  the  University  of 
California,  Mrs.  Norris  never  had  any  schooling. 
Probably  the  most  dramatic  thing  that  ever  hap- 
pened to  Kathleen  Norris  has  been  her  literary 
success.  No  thrilling  ad\entures,  no  prairie  life, 
or  mountaineering,  no  experiences  of  travel,  or 
residence  in  Paris  or  Berlin  ha\e  been  hers.  The 
adxentures  with  which  she  is  familiar  are  those  of 
the  nursery  and  the  kitchen.  She  learnt  the 
stern  facts  of  life  that  are  taught  in  the  school  of 
adversity  at  probably  the  most  impressionable 
years  of  her  life. 

At  nineteen  .Mrs.  Norris  was  ready  to  make 
her  bow  to  San  Francisco  society.  A  winter 
residence  in  the  city  had  been  selected,  and 
even  party  gowns  ordered  and  the  cotillions 
joined,  when  came  the  sad  and  sudden  inter- 
ruption.    The    mother    was    stricken    with    pneu- 

*Note:   Reprinted  from  The  Book  News  Monthly. 

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monia,  and   her  death  vsas  followed  in  less  than  a 
month  by  that  of  the  broken-hearted  father. 

As  if  the  loss  of  their  parents  was  not  a  sufficient 
affliction,  the  older  of  the  Thompson  children  now 
found  themselves  face  to  face  with  the  actual  prob- 
lem of  existence.  A  series  of  financial  misfortunes, 
culminating  just  after  the  father's  death,  left  them 
practically  destitute  with  the  exception  of  the  family 
home  in  Mill  Valley,  too  large  and  too  far  from  the 
city  to  be  a  negotiable  asset. 

It  was  at  this  time  that  the  idea  of  augmenting 
the  family  income  by  writing  fiction  first  occurred 
to  Mrs.  Norris  although  it  was  not  until  1904,  when 
she  was  barely  twenty-three,  that  her  literary  ambi- 
tion first  bore  fruit.  In  the  fall  of  the  previous  year 
she  attempted  a  year's  course  in  the  English  de- 
partment of  the  University  of  California,  only  to 
be  recalled  when  it  was  less  than  half  completed, 
by  the  needs  of  her  family.  Her  first  successful 
effort  was  a  story  entitled  "The  Colonel  and  the 
Lady,"  which  was  accepted  by  the  Argonaut,  of 
San  Francisco,  and  for  which  she  received  ^i  5.50. 

After  an  experience  as  a  librarian,  Mrs.  Norris 
went  into  settlement  work,  and,  after  several  months 
of  hopeless  efl'ort  to  reanimate  an  already  defunct 
settlement  house  into  renewed  activity  and  in- 
fluence, she  ga\e  up  the  attempt  and  accepted  a 
position  as  Society  Editor  of  the  Evening  Bulletin. 
Withm  a  few  months  she  was  called  to  the  repor- 
torial  ranks  of  the  San  Francisco  Call,  a  position 
she  successfully  filled  for  two  years. 

In    .'Xpril,     1909,    she    married    Charles    Oilman 
Norris,  the  younger  brother  of  the  author  of  "Mc- 
Teague"  and  "The  Pit."     They  made  their  home 
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in  New  York  City,  where  Mr.  Norris  was  engaged 
in  magazine  editorial  work.  It  is  not  strange  that 
the  first  leisure  she  had  known  since  her  father's 
death,  the  literary  environment,  and  the  happiness 
of  being  in  the  city  she  had  for  many  years  longed  to 
know,  should  have  awakened  in  Mrs.  Norris  again 
her  ambition  to  write. 

It  was  not  encouraging  work  at  first,  however. 
.Manuscripts  came  back  regularly  and  unfailingly 
for  manv  months.  Then  one  happened  to  fall  into 
the  hands  of  Mr.  Ellery  Sedgwick,  the  editor  of  the 
Atlantic  Monthly. 

The  editor's  letter  of  acceptance  read  as  follows; 

DtAR  Mrs.  Norris: 

The  readers  report  that,  delightful  as  this  story 
is  it  is  "  not  quite  in  our  tone."  The  feeling  of  the 
Atlantic  is,  that  when  a  tale  is  as  intimately  true  to 
life  as  this  is  of  yours,  the  tone  is  surely  a  tone  for 
the  Atlantic  to  adopt. 

It  gives  us  much  pleasure  to  accept  so  admirable 

a  story. 

\ery  truly  yours.    The    Lditor. 

Success  came  rapidly.  As  soon  as  "What  Hap- 
pened to  Alanna"  appeared  in  the  Atlantic,  it  at- 
tracted the  attention  of  Mr.  S.  S.  McClure,  who 
wrote  to  its  author,  requesting  her  to  send  him  the 
next  work  she  had  to  offer.  In  her  reply  Mrs.  Nor- 
ris was  fortunately  able  to  give  the  date  on  which 
the  same  story  had  been  submitted  to  McChires 
Magazine,  and  when  it  had  been  returned. 

Then  came  the  short  story  prize  contest  of  the 

D^/m^afor,  the  indirect  result  of  which  was  "Mother" 

—the  book  that  made  Kathleen  Norris  beloved  in 

thousands  of  American  homes.     It  was  first  written 

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as  a  short  story,  and  intended  for  the  Delineator  con- 
test, but  was  too  long  to  meet  the  conditions. 

Immediately  upon  its  publication  in  the  American 
Magazine  five  different  publishing  houses  requested 
Mrs.  Norris  to  enlarge  the  story  to  permit  of  its 
being  published  in  book  form.  There  ne\er  will 
be  a  finer  proof  of  Kathleen  Norris's  superb  crafts- 
manship than  the  task  she  set  herself  to  do  in  adding 
twenty  thousand  words  to  the  ten  thousand  that 
already  constituted  the  short  story.  How  well  she 
succeeded  the  twenty-fi\e  editions  of  the  book 
bear  witness  to. 

"The  Rich  Mrs.  Burgoyne"  duplicated  the  suc- 
cess of  "Mother."  A  collection  of  Mrs.  Nonis's 
best  short  stories,  under  the  title  of  "Poor,  Dear 
Margaret  Kirby,"  appeared  the  following  spring 
and  was  cordially  welcomed.  In  November  of  the 
same  year  'The  Treasure"  appeared  serially  in 
the  Saturday  Evening  Post  and  in  book  form  during 
the  succeeding   February. 

But  it  was  perhaps  "Saturday's  Child,"  which 
fixed  Mrs.  Norris's  position  in  the  world  of  letters. 
The  significance  of  the  title  comes  from  the  old 
jingle,  " Saturday' s  child  must  work  for  her  living." 
"Saturday's  Child"  was  followed  by  "The  Story 
of  Julia  Page"  and  that  in  turn  by  "Josselyn's 
Wife,"  both  of  which  show  a  steady  growth  in 
grasp  and  power. 

Kathleen  Norris  believes  in  the  fundamentals  of 
life.  One  cannot  read  her  stories  without  realizing 
this.  She  beliexes  in  simplicity,  in  kindness,  in 
charity,  in  her  home,  in  those  she  lo\es,  in  flowers, 
and  birds,  and,  above  all,  in  children.  She  is  an 
optimist,  both  in  her  life  and  in  what  she  writes. 

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She  never  has  written  a  slor\'  with  an  unhappy 
ending,  and  she  declares  she  ne\er  will.  She  is  no 
sentimentalist;  she  is  a  realist — a  realist  with  a 
passion  for  detail  and  truth.  She  li\es  as  she  writes, 
and,  whether  through  the  printed  page,  or  by  word 
of  mouth,  or  by  her  \ery  presence,  there  flows  from 
her  that  quality  of  goodness  of  which  Lincoln 
spoke:  "With  charity  for  all  and  malice  toward 
none!"  Her  life  is  built  upon  the  principle  of 
"love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself." 


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RUDYARD  KIPLING 


MY 

FIRST  BOOK 

By  Rudyard  Kipling 

Copyright  in  1892  in  the  United  States 
of  America  by  Rudyard  Kipling 


S  FHERE  is  only  one  man  in  charge 
of  a  steamer,  so  there  is  but  one  man 
in  charge  of  a  newspaper,  and  he  is 
'  the  editor.  My  chief  taught  me  this 
on  an  Indian  journal,  and  he  further 
explained  that  an  order  was  an  order,  to  be  obeyed 
at  a  run,  not  a  walk,  and  that  any  notion  or 
notions  as  to  the  fitness  or  unfitness  of  any  par- 
ticular kind  of  work  for  the  young  had  better  be 
held  over  till  the  last  page  was  locked  up  to  press. 
He  was  breaking  me  into  harness,  and  I  owe  him  a 
deep  debt  of  gratitude,  which  1  did  not  discharge  at 
the  time.  The  path  of  virtue  was  very  steep, 
whereas  the  writing  of  verses  allowed  a  certain  play 
to  the  mind,  and,  unlike  the  filling  in  of  reading 
matter,  could  be  done  as  the  spirit  served.  Now  a 
sub-editor  is  not  hired  to  write  verses.  He  is  paid 
to  sub-edit.  At  the  time,  this  discovery  shocked 
me  greatly;  but,  some  years  later,  when  1  came  to 
be  an  editor  in  charge.  Providence  dealt  me  for  my 
subordinate  one  saturated  with  Elia.  He  wrote  very 
pretty  Lamblike  essays,  but  he  wrote  them  when  he 
should  have  been  sub-editing.  Then  1  saw  a  little 
what  my  chief  must  have  suffered  on  my  account. 
There  is  a  moral  here  for  the  ambitious  and  aspir- 
ing who  are  oppressed  by  their  superiors. 

This  is  a  digression,  as  all  my  verses  were  di- 
gressions  from  office   work.     They   came  without 
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invitation,  unmanneredly,  in  the  nature  of  things; 
but  they  had  to  come  and  the  writing  out  of  them 
kept  me  healthy  and  amused.  To  the  best  of  my 
remembrance,  no  one  then  discovered  their  griev- 
ous cynicism,  or  their  pessimistic  tendency,  and 
1  was  far  too  busy  and  too  happy  to  take  thought 
about  these  things. 

So  they  arri\ed   merrily  being  born  out  of  the 
life  about  me,  and  they  were  very  bad  indeed,  and 
the  joy  of  doing  them  was   payment  a  thousand 
times  their  worth.     Some,  of  course,  came  and  ran 
away  again:  and  the  dear  sorrow  of  going  in  search 
of  these  (out  of  office  hours,  and   catching  them) 
was  almost  better  than  writing  them  clear.      Bad 
as  they  were,  1  burned  twice  as  many  as  were  pub- 
lished,   and    of   the  survivors   at    least    two-thirds 
were    cut    down    at    the    last    moment.     Nothing 
can   be  wholly   beautiful   that   is   not   useful,   and 
therefore  my  verses  were  made  to  ease  off  the  per- 
petual  strife   between   the   manager   extending   his 
advertisements  and  my  chief  fighting  for  his  read- 
ing   matter.     They    were    born    to    be    sacrificed. 
Rukn-Din,  the  foreman  of  our  side,    approved   of 
them  immensely,  for  he  was  a  Muslim  of  culture. 
He  would  say  "Your  poetry   very  good,   sir;  just 
coming   proper   length   to-day.     You   giving   more 
soon?     One-third     column     just     proper.     Always 
can  take  on  third  page." 

Mahmoud,  who  set  them  up,  had  an  unpleasant 
way  of  referring  to  a  new  lyric  as  "  Ek  aur  chiz" — 
one  more  thing — which  I  never  liked.  The  job 
side,  too,  were  unsympathetic,  because  I  used  to 
raid  into  their  type  for  private  proofs  with  Old 
English  and  Gothic  headlines.  Even  a  Hindoo 
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does  not  like  to  find  the  serifs  of  his  f's  cut  away 
to  make  long  s's. 

.\nd  in  this  manner,  week  by  week,  my  verses 
came  to  be  printed  in  the  paper.  1  was  in  very 
good  company,  for  there  is  always  an  undercurrent 
of  song,  a  little  bitter  for  the  most  part,  running 
through  the  Indian  papers.  The  bulk  of  it  is  much 
better  than  mine,  being  more  graceful,  and  is  don-. 
b\  those  less  than  Sir  Alfred  Lyall — to  whom  1 
would  apologize  for  mentioning  his  name  in  this 
gallery — "Pekin,"  "Latakia,"  "Cigarette,"  "O," 
"  1.  \\  .,"  "Foresight,"  and  others,  whose  names 
come  up  with  the  stars  out  of  the  Indian  Ocean 
going  eastward. 

Sometimes  a  man  in  Bangalore  would  be  moved 
to  song,  and  a  man  on  the  Bombay  side  would 
answer  him,  and  a  man  in  Bengal  would  echo  back 
till  at  last  we  would  all  be  crowing  together  like 
cocks  before  daybreak,  when  it  is  too  dark  to 
see  your  fellow.  And,  occasionally,  some  un- 
happy Chaaszee,  away  m  the  China  ports,  would 
lift  up  his  voice  among  the  tea-chests,  and  the 
queer-smelling  yellow  papers  of  the  Far  East 
brought  us  his  sorrows.  The  newspaper  files 
showed  that,  forty  years  ago,  the  men  sang  of  just 
the  same  subjects  as  we  did — of  heat,  loneliness, 
love,  lack  of  promotion,  po\  erty,  sport,  and  war. 
Farther  back  still,  at  the  end  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  Mickey's  Bengal  Ga^cU,  a  very 
wicked  little  sheet  in  Calcutta,  published  the 
songs  of  the  young  factors,  ensigns,  and  writers 
to  the  East  India  Company.  Ihey,  too,  wrote 
of  the  same  things,  but  in  those  days  men  were 
strong  enough  to  buy  a  bullock's  heart  for  dinner 
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cook  it  with  their  own  hands  because  they  could 
not  afford  a  servant,  and  make  a  rhymed  jest  of 
all  the  squalor  and  po\erty.  Li\es  were  not  worth 
two  monsoons'  purchase,  and  perhaps  the  knowl- 
edge of  this  a  little  colored  the  rhymes  when  they 
sang: 

"In   a   very  short    time  you're   released   from   all 

cares — 
if  the  Padri's  asleep,  Mr.  Oldham  reads  prayers!" 

The  note  of  physical  discomfort  that  runs  through 
so  much  Anglo-Indian  poetry  had  been  struck  then. 
You  will  find  it  most  fully  suggested  in  "The  Long, 
Long  Indian  Day" — a  comparatively  modern 
affair;  but  there  is  a  set  of  verses  called  "Scanty 
Ninety-Five,"  dated  about  Warren  Hastings'  time, 
which  gives  a  lively  idea  of  what  our  seniors  in  the 
service  had  to  put  up  with.  One  of  the  most  inter- 
esting poems  I  ever  found  was  written  at  Meerut 
three  or  four  days  before  the  mutiny  broke  out 
there.  The  author  complained  that  he  could  not 
get  his  clothes  washed  nicely  that  week,  and  was 
very  facetious  over  his  worries. 

My  verses  had  the  good  fortune  to  last  a  little 
longer  than  some  others  which  were  more  true  to 
facts  and  certainly  better  workmanship.  Men 
in  the  army,  and  the  civil  service,  and  the  railway, 
wrote  to  me  saying  that  the  rhymes  might  be 
made  into  a  book.  Some  of  them  had  been  sung 
to  the  banjoes  round  camp-fires,  and  some  had 
run  as  far  down  coast  as  Rangoon  and  Moulmcin, 
and  up  to  Mandalay.  .A  real  book  was  out  of  the 
question,  but  I  knew  that  Rukn-Din  and  the  office 
plant  were  at  my  disposal  at  a  price,  if  I  did  not 

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use  the  office  time.     Also,    1    had   handled   in   the 
previous  year  a  couple  of  small  books,  of  which  1 
was  part  owner,  and   had  lost  nothing.     So  there 
was  built  a  sort  of  a  book,  a  lean  oblong  docket, 
wire-stitched,  to  imitate  a  D.  O.  Government  en- 
velope, printed  on  one  side  only,  bound  in  brown 
paper,    and   secured    with    red    tape.     It    was   ad- 
dressed to  all  heads  of  departments  and  all  gov- 
ernment officials,  and  among  a  pile  of  papers  would 
have   deceived   a   clerk   of   twenty   years'    service. 
Of  these  "books"   we   made  some  hundreds,   and 
there  was  no  necessity  for  advertising;  my  public 
being  to  my  hand,  1  took  reply-postcards,  printed 
the  news  of  the  birth  of  the  book  on  one  side,  the 
blank  order-form  on  the  other,  and  posted  them  up 
and  down  the  empire  from  .Xden  to  Singapore,  and 
from   Quetta   to   Colombo.      Fhere   was   no   trade 
discount,    no     reckoning     twelves     as     thirteens, 
no  commission,  and  no  credit  of  any  kind  what- 
ever.    The  money  came  back  in  poor  but  honest 
rupees   and   was   transferred    from   the    publisher, 
the   left-hand    pocket,   direct    to   the   author,    the 
right-hand    pocket.     Every    copy    sold    in    a    few 
weeks,   and    the   ratio   of    expenses    to   profits,  as 
1    remember   it,  has   since    prevented   my  injuring 
mv     health     by     sympatliizing     with     publishers 
who  talk  of  their  risks  and  advertisements.     The 
down-country   papers  complained   of  the  form  ot 
the  thing.     The  wire  binding  tore  the  pages,  and 
the  red   tape  tore  the  covers.     This  was  not   in- 
tentional, but  heaven  helps  those  who  help  them- 
selves.    Consequently,  there  arose  a  demand  for  a 
new  edition  and  this  time  1  exchanged  the  pleasure 
of  taking  in  money  over  the  counter  for  that  of 
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seeing  a  real  publisher's  imprint  on  the  title-page. 
More  verses  were  taken  out  and  put  in,  and  some 
of  that  edition  travelled  as  far  as  Hong-Kong  on 
the  map,  and  each  edition  grew  a  little  fatter,  and, 
at  last,  the  book  came  to  London  with  a  gilt  top 
and  a  stiff  back,  and  was  advertised  in  the  pub- 
lishers' poetry  department. 

But  1  loved  it  best  when  it  was  a  little  brown 
baby  with  a  pink  string  round  its  stomach;  a  child's 
child,  ignorant  that  it  was  afflicted  with  all  the  most 
modern  ailments;  and  before  people  had  learned, 
beyond  doubt,  how  its  author  lay  awake  of  nights  in 
India,  plotting  and  scheming  to  write  something  that 
should  "take"  with  the  English  public. 


RL'DYARD    KIPLING    PROPHET 

Some    Notes    on    "The    Yfars    Between"    Re- 
vealing  The    Prophetic   Quality   of    Mr. 
Kipling's  View  of   World   Movements 

Rudyard  Kipling's  position  as  the  foremost  living 
writer  in  the  English-speaking  world  of  to-day  has 
been  augmented  by  another  view  of  his  work;  that 
of  seer  and  prophet.  For  to  his  prevision  of  world 
events  the  whole  ci\ilized  world  is  now  paying  tri- 
bute. In  a  review  of  Kipling's  war  poems  in  the 
London  Time^i  the  Oxford  Unixersity  correspondent 
of  that  paper  said  of  him: 

"Happy  the  nation,  the  Empire,  that  in  its 
fateful  hours  has  a  voice  to  'nerve  the  heart,'  to 
remind  it  what  it  has  been,  and  what  it  is,  to  tell 
it  to  endure.  The  prophet,  the  poet,  who  can  do 
this  is  an  asset  of  price  beyond  rubies,  is  worth  an 
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army  corps.  Such  an  asset  the  liritish  Kmpire. 
nay,  the  English-speaking  race,  possesses  to-day 
in  Riidyard  Kipling." 

All  ihe  poems  included  in  the  above  little  book 
appeal-  in  Mr.  Kipling's  latest  volume  of  poetry 
"The  Years  Between"  published  in  this  country 
m  April,  1919,  and  contain  Mr.  Kipling's  mature 
expression  of  all  that  he  has  stood  for  during  a 
score  of  years,  it  is  the  first  collection  of  his 
poems  published  since  "The  Five  Nations"  in 
1904  (since  that  time  he  has  issued  "Songs  from 
Books"  published  in  IQ12,  which  was  a  collection 
and  expansion  of  material  already  written,  and 
" .\  Diversity  of  Creatures"  published  in  19 17. 
which,  of  course,  is  prose).  Therefore,  because  of 
their  significance  in  world  affairs,  representing 
all  that  Mr.  Kipling  has  to  say  of  the  war  and 
present-day  conditions  "The  Years  Between" 
will  perhaps  be  studied  more  carefully  than  any 
of  this  writer's  books.  For  that  reason  the  follow- 
ing annotations  upon  some  of  the  poems  in  "The 
Years  Between"  will  be  of  interest  and  value  to 
students  and  casual  readers  alike.  The  material 
may  be  said  to  be  authoritative  and  to  state  clearly 
Mr.  Kipling's  own  ideas  in  regard  to  this  book, 
which  he  considers  his  most  important. 


THE  YEARS  BETWEEN 

"The  Rowers."  Originally  published  in  the 
Times  in  1902  at  the  time  when  Germany  wished  to 
embroil  England  with  the  United  States  under 
pretence,  as  usual,  of  friendship,  by  the  suggestion 

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that  England  should  jointly  with  Germany  put 
pressure  on  Venezuela  for  the  collection  of  debts 
due  by  the  latter  to  both  England  and  Germany. 

The  verses  excited  an  uproar  in  Germany  and 
were  very  badly  received  in  England;  but  are  note- 
worthy for  the  first  use  of  the  word  "Hun."  This 
was  based  on  the  Kaiser's  message  to  his  troops 
when  cooperating  with  the  Allied  Forces  in  China 
at  the  time  of  the  Boxer  Rising.  He  urged  them  to 
remember  Attila  and  to  make  their  name  terrible 
among  the  Chinese. 

"The  Veterans."  Anticipation  of  the  Day  which 
came  seven  years  later. 

"The  Declaration  of  London."  The  refusal  by 
the  House  of  Lords  to  abrogate  the  Declaration 
of  London  which  set  out  that  the  neutral  flag 
did  not  cover  neutral  cargo,  was,  under  Providence, 
one  of  the  chief  means  whereby  the  British  Navy 
was  enabled  to  save  the  world. 

"The  Covenant."  Gives  the  situation  as  it  stood 
immediately  before  the  outbreak  of  the  War. 

"France."  Written  on  the  occasion  of  the 
French  President's  visit  to  England  the  year  before 
the  war.  A  fairly  complete  prophecy  in  itself. 
"That  undying  sin  we  shared  in  Rouen  market- 
place" is,  of  course,  the  burning  of  Joan   of  Arc. 

"For  All  We  Have  and  Are."  Generally  ad- 
judged at  the  time  it  was  written  as  "too  serious 
for  the  needs  of  the  case,"  but  in  191 5  it  was 
realized  that  it  was  the  truth  and  was  generally 
used  for  propaganda. 

"The  Outlaws."  Forecast  in  1914  of  the  German 
moral  collapse.  "Their  own  hate  slew  their  own 
soul    before    the    Victory    came."     Illustrated    by 

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the  way  in  which  the  defeated  Hun  turned  and 
rent  his  own  land.  "Ihey  plotted  by  their  neigh- 
bor's hearth.  Ihe  means  to  make  him  slave," 
gives  the  Hun's  whole  mental  attitude  in  regard  to 
commercial    enterprise. 

"Zion."  The  difference  between  the  spiritual 
attitudes  of  the  Hun  and  his  opponents.  Really 
wicked  people  are  never  humorous  and  never 
dare  to  stand  easy  even  for  a  moment. 

"The  Choice."  The  italicized  verses  gi\e  a  new 
version  of  the  Doxology — "  Praise  Father,  Son  and 
Holy  Ghost." 

"The  Holy  W  ar.  Note  how  thoroughly  Bunyan 
understood  the  Hun  and  the  Pacifist  mind.  Used 
as  card  reprint  for  propaganda. 

"The  Houses."  This  was  originally  published 
in  the  Navy  League  Journal  twenty-one  years 
ago.  Defines  the  relations  of  the  Dominions  to 
England  and  their  attitude  to  her  and  to  each 
other  as  proved  in  the  War.  On  these  principles, 
roughly  speaking,  the  Federation  of  Free  Peoples 
is  based — No  talk  of  "headship  or  lordship  or 
service  or  fee,"  but  merely  friend  comforting  and 
counselling  friend.  Noteworthy  as  a  prophecy 
that  fulfilled  itself  within  one  generation. 

"  Russia  to  the  Pacifist."  Written  more  than  two 
years  ago,  but  gives  exact  presentation  of  Russia's 
present  condition  which  was  due  to  the  intellec- 
tuals and  pacifists  whose  efforts  directly  produced 
the  disease  called  Bolshevism.  It  is  practically  a 
dirge  over  a  dead  Nation. 

"The  Irish  Guards."  This  Regiment  traces  its 
descent  with  more  or  less  accuracy  from  the  Irish 
Brigades  who  fought  for  France  against   England 

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in  Louis  XlV's  time;  and  at  Fontenoy  \ery  nearly 
broke  up  the  attacks  of  the  Grenadier  Guards. 
The  recruits  who  fled  out  of  Ireland  to  join  these 
corps  were  generally  known  as  the  Wild  Geese 
The  great  stand  of  the  Irish  Brigade  at  Fontenoy 
was  made  at  Barry  Wood,  and  Gouzeaucourt 
(191 7)  was  one  of  the  many  great  battles  during 
this  War  in  which  the  Irish  Guards  took  a  leading 
part. 

"A  Nativity."  The  Christmas  Carol  in  italics 
is  interrupted  at  e\'ery  verse  by  the  berea\ed 
mother. 

"  En-Dor."  A  direct  attack  on  the  present  mania 
of  "Spiritualism"  among  such  as  have  lost  men 
during  the  war.  It  will  doubtless  provoke  a  great 
deal  of  discussion. 

".■\  Recantation."  A  se\'erely  classical  rendering 
of  an  experience  common  to  thousands  of  parents 
whose  sons  admired  one  or  other  of  our  English 
music  hall  artists  who,  it  must  be  remembered, 
did  more  to  keep  up  the  spirits  and  cheer  the  minds 
of  the  boys  at  the  Front  and  on  lea\e  than  will 
ever  be  known  (hence  the  decoration  of  some  of 
them).  It  is  the  only  direct  tribute  yet  paid  to 
this  body  of  people  who  were  at  heart  public  ser- 
\ants  who  put  aside  their  own  grief  and  losses 
as  Lyde  did,  and  worked  without  rest  to  keep  the 
boys  amused  and  cheery.  The  incident  of  the 
music  hall  star  going  on  with  her  work — "for  the 
boys'  sake" —  on  the  very  night  she  had  recei\ed 
news  of  her  own  son's  death  is  not  fiction. 

"My  Boy  Jack."     Sung  at  concerts,  etc.,  all  over 
England,  and  next  to  "For  All  We  Have  and  .^re" 
the  most  popular  of  the  war-verses  for  quotation. 
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"The  X'erdicts."  This  applies,  both  in  the  United 
States  and  England,  to  ail  the  judgments  of  this 
generation  on  the  men  who  are  supposed  to  have 
done  the  most  important  work  in  the  war.  That 
is  a  queston  which  can  only  be  settled  by  our 
children  who  will  be  far  enough  removed  from 
the  dust  and  heat  of  recrimination  of  the  present 
strife  to  see  clearly. 

"Mesopotamia."  This  deals  with  the  hideous 
scandals  of  the  early  Mesopotamia  e.xpedition 
as  set  out  in  the  otifkial  report  on  the  same  and 
exactly  describes  the  attitude  of  all  officials  im- 
plicated— not  one  of  whom  has  been  punished  or 
even  permanently  degraded  for  his  share  in  the 
debacle.  The  fifth  verse  is  the  quotable  one,  as 
illustrating  the  methods  of  politicians  in  tight 
places. 

"The  Sons  of  Martha."  Published  many  years 
ago  in  a  newspaper  and  for  some  reason  quoted 
all  over  the  world  since.  The  poem  is  a  study  of 
the  two  temperaments  that  make  up  mankind — 
the  people  who  at  all  costs  will  work  and  the  peo- 
ple who  trust  that  other  people  will  work  for 
them.  It  bears  out  the  other  poem,  "Things  and 
the  Man,"  as  showing  that  "Things  never  yet 
created  things — . "  It  has  nothing  whate\er  to 
do  with  "labor"  as  some  people  say,  but  with 
all  humanity.  The  reader  may  discern  .Marv's 
type  indicated  in  the  verses  Mary's  Son. 

"The  Song  of  the  Lathes."  The  employment 
on  an  immense  scale  and  for  a  long  time  of  female 
labor  in  the  munition  factories  of  Great  Britain 
e\  olved,  among  other  things,  a  type  of  grim,  resolute, 
and  enthusiastic  women  most  of  whom  owed  a  debt 

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of  blood  to  the  Hun,  who  worked  with  a  sustained 
energy  that  was  almost  terrifying.  Mrs.  Embsay 
may  be  taken  as  a  fair  type  of  that  class  who 
turned,  gauged,  filled,  or  fused  the  millions  of  shells 
that  were  monthly  turned  out.  The  quiet  heroism 
and  sangfroid  of  the  women,  all  among  the  ex- 
plosives, when  the  air  raids  were  in  full  swing 
above  them,  was  beyond  all  praise.  The  last 
verse  but  one,  Man's  hate  passes,  etc.,  contains 
the  hub  of  the  whole  proposition,  and  woman's 
attitude  toward  the  Hun  in  the  future. 

"Gethsemane."  .American  boys  can  bear  out  the 
truth  of  this  poem,  and  of  the  horror  that  over- 
takes a  man  when  he  first  ships  his  gas  mask. 
What  makes  war  most  poignant  is  the  presence 
of  women  with  whom  one  can  talk  and  make  love 
only  an  hour  or  so  behind  the  line. 

"Things  and  the  Man."  .Another  much-quoted 
set  of  verses  though  it  only  appeared  in  a  news- 
paper. The  last  verse  but  one  has  the  moral, 
which  may  be  very  hotly  contested  by  those  who 
prefer  to  believe  in  things  happening  in  obedience 
to  the  Time  Spirit  or  whatever  they  call  it. 

"A  Death  Bed."  This  balances  the  Dead  King 
and  is  a  fantasy  of  the  Kaiser  on  his  Death-bed 
explaining  his  views  and  principles  (in  quotation 
marks)  to  the  doctor  who  (in  italics)  attends 
strictly  to  the  pathological  aspects  of  his  patient's 
case.  The  rest  of  the  verses  are  filled  with  a  con- 
sideration of  the  different  kinds  of  death  which 
the  dying  man  had  caused  others  to  suffer. 

"A  Pilgrim's  Way."  Another  much  quoted-poem, 
especially  the  last  line,  "The  people.  Lord,  Thy 
people,  are  good  enough  for  me." 

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■'The  Song  at  Cockcrow."  This  poem  is  an 
expression  of  one  view  of  the  attitude  of  the  Vatican 
in  regard  to  Hun  atrocities  throughout  the  war. 

"The  City  of  Brass."  This  was  written  more  than 
seven  years  ago.  It  gives  a  careful  outhne  of  the 
state  to  which  Socialism  reduces  a  Nation  and 
has  the  curious  Hne,  which  was  humorously  dis- 
cussed by  the  press  at  the  time:  "Out  of  the  Sea 
came  a  sign,  out  of  Heaven  a  terror."  One  of 
the  English  papers  in  191 1  published  a  "comic" 
illustration  of  them  in  the  shape  of  a  sea  full  of 
submarines  and  a  sky  full  of  airplanes! 


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THE 

KIPLING 

INDEX 

Being  a  Guide  to   the   Authorized  American 
Trade  Edition  of  Rudyard  Kipling  s  JVorks 


Abaft      the      Funnel  —  Short 
Stories  and  Verse 

Contents: 

Erastasius  of  the  Whanghoa 

Her  Little  Responsil)ility 

A  Menagerie  Aboard 

A  Smoke  of  Manila 

The  Red  Lamp 

The  Shadow  of  His  Hand 

A  Little  More  Beef 

The  History  of  a  Fall 

GriflBths  the  Safe  Man 

It! 

A  Fallen  Idol 

New  Brooms 

Tiglath  Pileser 

The  Likes  o'  Us 

His  Brother's  Keeper 

"  Sleipner,"  Late  "  Thurinda " 

A  Supplementary  Chapter 

Chautauquaed 

The  Bow  Flume  Cable-Car 

In  Partibus  {Verse) 

Letters  on  Leave 

The  Adoration  of  the  Mage 

A  Death  in  the  Camp 

A  Really  Good  Time 

On  Exhibition 

The  Three  Young  Men 

My  Great  and  Only 

"The  Betrayal  of  Confidences" 

The  New  Dispensation — I 

The  New  Dispensation — II 

The  Last  of  the  Stories 

Actions      and        Reactions — 
Short  Stories  and  Verse 

Conients: 

The  Recall  (Verse) 
Garm— a  Hostage 
An  Habitation  Enforced 


The  Power  of  the  Dog  ( Verse) 

The  Mother  Hive 

The  Bees  and  the  Flies  (Verse) 

With  the  Night  Mail 

The  Four  Angels  ( Verse) 

A  Deal  in  Cotton 

The  New  Knighthood  (Verse) 

The  Puzzler 

The  Puzzler  (Verse) 

Little  Foxes 

Gallio's  Song  (Verse) 

The  House  Surgeon 

The  Rabbi's  Song  (Verse) 

Adoration  of  the  Mage.  The- 
Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Aerial  Board  of  Control 


See: 


Actions  and  Reactions,  s.  v. 
With  the  Night  Mail 


Alphabet,    How  the Was 

Made — Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 

Ambush,  In — Short  Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

American  Notes 

See:  From  Sea  to  Sea 

Chapters  xxir-xxxvii 

Summary 

Ch.  XXII — American    Politics   Dis- 
cussed on  Shipboard 
Ch.  XXIII — San  Francisco 

An  American  Hotel 

The  Cable  Car 


l8l 


The  Language  of  America 

BretHarte 

The  "  Bunco-Steerer" 

The  Bohemian  Llub 
Ch.  XXIV— The  Chinese  Quarter  and 
a  Murder 

The  Drink  Question 

Suffrage 

Political  Machinerj- 
Ch.  XXV — American  Women 

Home-Life 

Spirit  of  the  West 

The  Negro  and  the  Race  Problem 

The  A-nerican  Eas^le  Screams 

The  Typewriter-Girl 

Ch.  XXVI— In  a  Pullman 

Bret  Harte's  Country 

Railroading  in  the  Far  West 

Portland 

Salmon  Fishing  on  the  Columbia 
Ch.  XXVII— A  Salmon  Factory 

A  Fishing  Trip  on  the  Clackamas 

Tacoma 

Seattle 
Ch.  XXVIII— Vancouver 

Ch.  XXIX — Livingston 

Yellowstone  Park  and  the  Fourth 
of  July 
Ch.  XXX — The     American    Trooper 

Through  the  Geyser  Country 
Ch.  XXXI — The  Grand  Canon 
Ch.  XXXII — The  American  Army 
Salt  Lake  City 
Mormonisra 
Denver 
Ch.  XXXIV— Omaha     and     Under- 
takers 
Ch.  XXXV— Chicago 
The  Stock  Yards 
Ch.  XXXVI— The  United  States:  A 
Forecast 
Musquash  on  the   Monongahela 
American  Youth  and  Social  In- 
tercourse 
Ch.  XXXVII— An     Interview     with 
Mark  Twain 

American,  An — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

American  Song — Verse 

'  'There  came  to  the  beach  a  poor  e.xile 

of  Erin" 
See:  Life's  Handicap,   s.  v.  Namgay 
Doola 

Amir's      Homily,      The — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 


Among    the    Railavay    Folk— 
Descripti\'e  Narrative 

See:  From  Sea  to  Sea 

Anchor  Song — Verse 

See:  Many  Inventions,  s.  v.  Envoy. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  Anchor 
Song  and  in  Collected  Verse, q.  v. 

And  if  Ye  Doubt  the  Tale  I 
Tell — Verse 

"The  Palms" 
See:  Many    Inventions,    s.     v.       A 
Matter  of  Fact 

And    Some   Are    Sulky,    While 
Some  Will  Plunge — Verse 

Toolungala  Stockyard  Chorus 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills, 
s.  V.  Thrown  Away 

And  the  Years  Went  On,  as  the 
Years  ]\Iust  Do — Verse 

Diana  of  Ephesus 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 
s.  V.  Venus  Anno  Domini 

Angels,  The  Four — Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

"Angutivun  Tina" — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Ankus,  The  King's— Short 
Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Answer,  An — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Arithmetic  on  the  Frontier — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Armadillos,  The  Beginning  of 
THE — Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 

Army  He.vdqu.vrters — -Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties 

Army  of  a  Dream,  The,  Parts 
I  AND  II — Short  Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 


182 


Arrest     of     Lieutenant     Go- 
lightly,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

As    Easy    as    A.    li.    C. — Short 
Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 


Eyes     of — Short 


Asia,      The 
Stories 

Contents: 

A  Retired  Gentleman 
The  Fumes  of  the  Heart 
The  Private  Account 
A  Trooper  of  Horse 

"As  the  Bell  Clinks" — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Astrologer's  Song,  An — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

At  the  End  of  the  Passage — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

At  the  Hole  Where  He  Went 
In — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First,  s.  v. 
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 

At    the    Pit's    Mouth — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

At  T\venty-T\vo — Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Auchinleck's  Ride — Verse 

"There  was  a  strife  'twixt  man  and 
maid" 

See:  Naulahka,    The,     Heading   for 
Chapter  I 

Auckland — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A 
Song  of  the  English.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected \'erse,  q.  v. 

AURELI.AN   IMcGOGGIN,   ThE    CON- 
VERSION OF — SHOi<T  Story 
See:  I'lain  Tales  from  the  Hills 


.Vuxiliaries,   The,   I    and    II — 
Article 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  article  reprinted  in  Sea 
Warfare,  q,  v. 


B 


Baa,  Baa,  Black  Sheep — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

"Back  to  the  Army  Again" — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Badalia  Herodsfoot,  The  Rec- 
ord of — Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Balestier,  Wolcott 

Collaborator  with  Rudyard  Kipling 
in  the  writing  of  ''Naulahka,  The," 
q.  V.  Dedication  poem  of  Barrack- 
Room  Ballads  addressed  to  him. 

B.\LL.\DE     OF     JaKKO     HiLL,     A — 

Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Ballad  of  Boh  Da  Thone,  The 
— Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

B.\LLAD  OF  Burial,  A — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Ballad  of  East  and  West,  The 
— Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Ballad    of    Fisher's    Boarding 
House,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
B.\LLAD    OF    MiNEPIT    ShAW,    The 

— Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 


183 


Ballad     of     the      "Bolivar." 
The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Ballad     of     the     "Cl.ampher- 
DOWN,"  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Ballad    of    the    King's    Jest, 
The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Ballad  of  the  King's  Mercy, 
The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  \'erse,  q.  v. 

Ballads,  B.\rrack-Room 

Contained   in    two   volumes.     For  list 
of  titles: 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  and  De- 
partmental Ditties.  Both  of 
these  collections  of  Ballads 
are  reprinted  under  the  head- 
ings, "Indian  Service"  and 
"General"  in  Collected  Verse, 
q.v. 

Br^LTIc,    Some    Work   in   the — 
Article 

See:  Sea  Warfare 

Bandar  Log,  Road  Song  of  the 
— Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Banjo,     The     Song     of    the — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  '  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

Bank  Fraud,  A — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Barrack-Room  Ballads 

See:  Ballads,    Barrack-Room,    above 

Bathurst,  Mrs. — Short  Story 
See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 


Battle  of  Jutl.and,  Stories  of 
the — Article 

See:  Sea  Warfare 

Battle    Spectacle    and    a    Re- 
view— Article 

See:  France  at  War 

Bear,     The    Truce    of     the — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

Beast,    The    Mark    of    the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Beat  Off  in   Our  Last   Fight 
Were  We? — Verse 

Blackbeard 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XIII.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.  v. 

Because  I  Sought  It  Far  From 
Men — Verse 

The  Crystals  of  Iswara 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XIV.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.v. 

Bee    Boy's    Song,    The — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Beef,    A    Little    More — Short 
Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Bees    and    the    Flies,    The — 
Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Before  a  ]\Iidnight  Breaks  in 
Storm — Verse 

Dedication 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

184 


Beginning  of  the  Armadillos, 
The — Short  Story 

Sec:  Just  So  Stories 

Beginnings,  The — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Bell  Buoy,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

Below   the   Mill   Dam — Short 
Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Belts— Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Benefactors,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Benefit  of  Clergy,  Without — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Beoni  Bar — Verse 

It  was  not  in  the  open  fight 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills, 
s.  v.  The  Rout  of  the  White 
Hussars 

Bertran   and   Bimi — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

"Betr.\yal      of      Confidences, 
The" — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Betrothed,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Beware  the  IMan  Who's  Crossed 
in  Love — Verse 

The  Buck  and  the  Saw 
See:  Naulahka,    The.     Heading    for 
Chapter  II 

Be  Well  Assured  That  on  Our 
Side — Verse 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Sea  War- 
fare, q.  v. 


Beyond        the        Pale — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Big      Drunk      Draf',      The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 
Bill  'Awkins — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


BiMi,       Bertran 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 


AND — Short 


Biographical  Sketch  of  Rud- 
yard  Kipling — By  Charles 
Eliot  Norton 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills  and 
Kipling  Stories  and  Poems 
Every  Child  Should  Know 


'  Birds     of 
Verse 


Prey"     March — 


See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Bis.\ra  of  Pooree,  The — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Bitters  Neat — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Black    and    White,    In — Short 
Stories 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc.  - 

Blackbeard — Verse 

"Beat  off  in  our  last  fight  were  we?" 
See:  Naulahka,    The.     Heading    for 
Chapter  XIII 

Black  Jack — Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Blue  Roses — 'Verse 

"  Roses  red  and  roses  white" 
See:  The  Light  that  Failed.     Head- 
ing for  Chapter  \TI.     The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 


185 


Boh  Da  Thoxe,  The  Ballad  of 
— Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

"Bolivar,"  The  Ballad  of  the 
— -Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Bombay — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Bombay,     Dedication     to    the 
City  of — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Bonds     of     Discipline,     The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Boots — Verse 

(Infantry  Columns  of  the  Earlier  War) 
See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 
verse     reprinted     in     Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Bow  Flume  Cable-Car,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

''Bread  Upon  the  Waters" — 
Short  Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Bridge-Builders,  The — Short 
Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Bridge-Guard   in   the   Karroo 
— Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 
,  verse    reprinted    in     Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Brisbane — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


B  ritish-Roman     Song,      A  — 
Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook'sHill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs.  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

British  Soldier,  The  Young — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse   q.  v. 

Broken-Link  Handicap,   The — 

Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Broken  Men,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Bronckhorst     Divorce      Case, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Brookland  Road — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Brooms,  New — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Brother  Square-Toes^ — Short 
Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

"Brugglesmith" — Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Brushwood    Boy,    The — Short 
Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Bubbling  Well  Road — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Buck     and     the     Saw,     Thi: — 
Verse 

"Beware  the  man  who's  crossed  in  love" 
See:  Naulahka,    The.     Heading    for 
Chapter  II 

Buddha    at    K.\makura — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


i86 


Burial,  A  Ballad  of — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc, 

BuRL\L,  The — Verse 

(C.  J.  Rhodes,  buried  in  the  Matoppos, 
April  lo,  1902) 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

B  utterflies — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books,  The  same 
verse  reprinted  under  the  title  "Kas- 
par's  Song  in  'Varda'"  in  Traffics 
and  Discoveries,  q.  v. 

Butterfly  That   Stamped,  The 
— Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 

"By   the    Hoof    of    the    Wild 
Goat" — ^Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  the  story,  "To 
Be  Filed  for  Reference"  in  Plain 
Tales  From  the  Hills,  q.  v. 

By    Word    of    Mouth — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 


Cable-Car,  The  Bow  Flume — 
Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Calcutta — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


Camel,   How  the 


Got   His 


Hump — Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 


Captains  Courageous 

A  Story  of  the  Grand  Banks 

Captive,    The — Short    Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books  q.  v. 

Carol,  A — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Cat  That  Walked  by  Himself, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 

Cat,       The       Maltese — Short 
Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Cattle  Thief,  The  Lament  of 
THE  Border — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Cells — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Centurion  of  the  Thirtieth,  A 
— Short  Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Certain    Maxims    of    Hafiz^ 
Verse 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Chance    in     Life,     His — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 


Camp    Animals,     Parade     Song 
of  the — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Capetown — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  Lnglish.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


Chantey,  The  First — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Chantey,  The  Last — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected  Verse, 
q.v. 


W 


Chant-Pagan — Verse 

(English  Irregular:  '99-02). 
See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 
verse     reprinted     in     Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Charm,  A — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Charm    of    the    Bisara,     The 
— Verse 

"Little    Blind    Fish     thou    art    mar- 
vellous wise" 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills,  s.  v. 
The  Bisara  of  Pocree 

Chautauquaed — Short       Story 
See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Chicago  (Illinois) 
See:  American  Notes 

Children,  The— Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Children  of  the  Zodiac,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Children's    Song,    The — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reorinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

Chil's  Song — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

China-Going     P.     ant     O.'S— 
Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  The 
Crab  That  Played  with  the  Sea 

Choice,  The — Verse 
See:  Years  Between,  The 

Cholera  Camp — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Chorus      from      Libretto      of 
Xaulahka — Verse 

"When  a  Lover  hies  abroad" 
See:  Nauiahka,    The.     Heading    for 
Chapter  VIII 


Christmas  in  Indi.a. — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Cities,    The     Song    of    the — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Sea>,  The,  s.  v.  A 
Song  of  the  English.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected \'erse,  q.  v. 

Cities       .and       Thrones       and 
Powers— Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  V.  A 
Centurion  of  the  Thirtieth. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Songs  From  Books,  q.  v. 

"City  of  Br.\ss,  The'' — ^Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

City  of  Dre.\dful  Night,  The 
— Descriptive  Narrative 

See:  Life's      Handicap.     The     same 

narrative  reprinted  in  From  Sea 
to  Sea,  q.  v. 

City  of  Sleep,  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  the  story 
"Brushwood  Boy,  The"  in 
"Day's  Work,  The,"  q.  v. 

City     Wall,     On     the — Short 
Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

C1VILIZ.A.T10N,  On  the   Frontier 
OF — Article 

See:  France  at  War 

"Clampherdown,"   The    Ballad 
OF  THE — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  \'erse,  q.  v. 

"Cleared  " — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Coal-Fields.     The       Giridih — 
Descrihiix'e  Narrative 
See:  From  Sea  to  Sea 


Coastwise        Lights,        The— 
Verse 
See:  Seven     Seas,     The,     s.     v.     A 
Song     of      the      P^nglish.     The 
same    verse    reprinted    in    Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Code  of  IMorals,  A — Verse 

Sec:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Cold  Irox — Short  Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Cold  Iron — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.   v. 

Collected  Verse 

Contents 

The  Fires 

Dedication      from      ''Barrack-Room 
BaUads"    (To    Wolcott    Balestier) 
To  the  True  Romance 
Sestina  of  the  Tramp-Royal 
The  Miracles 
Song  of  the  Wise  Children 
Buddha  at  Kamakura 
The  Sea-Wife 
The  Broken  Men 
The  Song  of  the  Banjo 
The  Explorer 
The  Sea  and  the  Hills 
Anchor  Song 

Rhyme  of  the  Three  Sealers 
McAndrew's  Hymn 
Mulholland's  Contract 
The  'Mary  Gloster" 
The  Ballad  of  "The  Bolivar" 
The  Ballad  of  the  "Clampherdown" 
Cruisers 
The  Destroyers 
White  Horses 
The  Derelict 
The  Merchantmen 
The  Song  of  Diego  \"a!dez 
The  Second  \oyage 
The  Liner  She's  a  Lady 
The  First  Chantey 
The  Last  Chantey 
The  Long  Trail 
A  Song  of  the  English 
The  Coastwise  Lights 
The  Song  of  the  Dead 
The  Deep-Sea  Cables 
The  Song  of  the  Sons 
The  Song  of  the  Cities 
England's  Answer 
To  the  City  of  Bombay 
Our  Ladj'  of  the  Snows 
An  American 
The  Young  Queen 
The  Flowers 


The  Native-Born 

The  Lost  Legion 

Pharaoh  and  the  Sergeant 

Kitchener's  School 

Bridge-Guard  in  the  Karroo 

South  Africa 

The  Burial 

The  Settler 

Sussex 

Dirge  of  Dead  Sisters 

The  English  Flag 

When      Earth's      Last      Picture      Is 

Painted 
"Cleared" 

The  Ballad  of  East  and  West 
The  Last  Suttee 
General  Joubert 
The  Ballad  of  the  King's  Mercy 
The  Ballad  of  the  King's  Jest 
With  Scindia  to  Delhi 
The  Dove  of  Dacca 
The  Ballad  of  Boh  Da  Thone 
The  Sacrifice  of  Er-Heb 
The   Lament   of   the   Border    Cattle 

Thief 
The  Feet  of  the  Young  Men 
The  Truce  of  the  Bear 
The  Peace  of  Dives 
An  Imperial  Rescript 
Et  Dona  Ferentes 
Before  a  Midnight  Breaks  in  Storm 
The  Bell  Buoy 
The  Old  Issue 
The  Lesson 
The  Islanders 
The  Dykes 
The  Wage-Slaves 
Rimmon 
The  Reformers 
The  Old  Men 
The  White  Man's  Burden 
Hymn  Before  Action 
Recessional 
The  Three-Decker 
The  Rhyme  of  the  Three  Captains 
The  Conundrum  of  the  Workshops 
Evarra  and  his  Gods 
In  the  Neolithic  Age 
The  Story  of  Ung 
The  Files 

The  Legends  of  Evil 
Tomlinson 
The  Explanation 
The  Answer 
The  Gift  of  the  Sea 
The  King 

The  Last  Rhyme  of  True  Thomas 
The  Palace 

Barrack     Room     Ballads     I— Indian 
Service 

To  Thomas  Atkins 

Danny  Deever 

Tommy 

"  Fuzzy- Wuzzy" 

Soldier,  Soldier 

Screw-Guns 

Cells 


189 


Gunga  Din 

Oonts 

Loot 

"Snarleyow" 

The  Widow  at  Windsor 

Belts 

The  Young  British  Soldier 

Mandalay 

Troopin' 

The  Widow's  Party 

Ford  o'  Kabul  River 

Gentlemen-Rankers 

Route  Marchin' 

Shillin'  a  Day 

Barrack-Room    Ballads    II— General 

"Back  to  the  Army  Again" 
"Birds  of  Prey"  March 
"Soldier  an'  Sailor  too" 

Sappers 

That  Day 
"The  Men  That  Fought  at  Minden" 

Cholera  Camp 

The  Ladies 

Bill  'Awkins 

The  Mother-Lodge 
"Follow  me 'Ome" 

The  Sergeant's  Weddin' 

The  Jacket 

The  'Eathen 

The  Shut-Eye  Sentry 
''Marj%  Pity  Women!" 
"For  to  Admire" 

Service  Songs — South-African  War 

Chant-Pagan 

M.I.  (Mounted  Infantr>'  of  the  Line) 
Columns 

The  Parting  of  the  Columns 
Two  Kopjes 
The  Instructor 
Boots 

The  Married  Man 
Lichtenberg 
Stellenbosh 

Half-Ballad  of  Waterval 
Piet 
"  W'ilful -Missing" 
Ubique 
The  Return 

Columns — Verse 

(Mobile  Columns  of  the  Later  War) 
See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 
verse     reprinted     in     Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Comforters,  The — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 


Comprehension   of   Private 
Copper,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Conference  of  the  Powers,  A 
— Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Confessions — Verse 

"In  the  daytime,  when  she   moved 

about  me" 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills, 
s.  V.  The  Bronckhorst  Di- 
vorce Case 

"Confidences,  The  Betrayal 
of" — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Consequences — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Conundrum  of  the  Workshops, 
The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Conversion    of    Aurelian    Mc- 
GoGGiN,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Conversion    of    St.    Wilfred, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Convert,  The — Verse 

"Look,  you  have  cast  out  love!" 


See: 


Plain     Tales 
s.  V.  Lispeth 


from     the     Hills, 


Cotton,  A  Deal  in — Short 
Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Courting  of  Dinah  S]j.\dd, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap.  The  same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
Stories,  q.  v. 

Covenant,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 


Common  Task  of  a  Great  Peo-      Crab   That   Played    with    the 
ple,  The — Article  Sea,  The — Short  Story 

See:  France  at  War  See:  Just  So  Stories 

190 


Craftsman,   The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Cruisers — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Crystals     of     Iswara,     The — 
Verse 

"Because  I  sought  it  far  from  men" 
See:  Naulahka,   The.      Heading   for 
Chapter  XIV 

Cuckoo  Song — Verse 

See:  Songs  from  Books 

Cupid's  Arrows — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 


o 


Dacca,  The  Dove  of — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  \'erse,  q.  v. 

Dana    Da,    The    Sending    of — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc . 

Dane  Women,  Harp  Song  of  the 
— Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pock's  Hill 

Danny  Deever — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Darzee's  Chaunt — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Daughter    of    the    Regiment, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Dawn     Off     the     Forelani>— 
Verse 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Sea 
Warfare,  q.  v. 

Day's        Work,        The — Short 
Stories  and  Verse 

Contents 

The  Bridge-Builders 
A  Walking  Delegate 


The  Ship  That  I'ound  Herself 
The  Tomb  of  His  Ancestors 
The  Devil  and  the  Deep  Sea 
William     the     Conqueror.     Parts 

I  and  II 
.007 

The  Maltese  Cat 
"Bread  upon  the  Waters" 
An  Error  in  the  Fourth  Dimension 
My  Sunday  at  Home 
The  Brushwood  Boy 
Over  the  Edge  of  the  Purple  Down 

{Verse) 

Dead  King,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Dead  Sisters,  Dirge  of — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

De.\d,     The     Song     of     the — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  .\ 
Song  of  the  English.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q  v. 

Deal     in     Cotton,     A — Short 
Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Death-bed,  A — Verse 
See:  Years  Between,  The 

Death  ix  the  Camp,  A — Short 
Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Declaration  of  London,  The — 
Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Dedication — Verse 

"Before  a  midnight  breaks  in  storm" 
See:  Five  Nations,  The 

Dedication 

"If  I  were  hanged  on  the  highest  hill" 
See:  The  Light  That  Failed 

Dedication,  A — Verse 

See:  Songs  from  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  under  the  title 
"L'Envoi"  in  Soldiers  Three 


191 


Dedication    to    the    City    of 
Bombay — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Deep-Sea  Cables,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven    Seas,    The,    s.    v.  A 

Song     of     the     English.  The 

same    verse    reprinted    in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Delhi,      With      Scindia      to — 

Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

The    same    verse     reprinted    in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Delilah — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Denver  (Colorado) 

See:  American  Notes 


Ditties       and 
Barrack-Room 


Departmental 
Ballads    and 
Ballads 

Contents 
Prelude.     "I   have    eaten    your    bread 
and  salt" 

DEPARTMENTAL  DITTIES 

General  Summary 

Army  Headquarters 

Study  of  an  Elevation,  in  Indian  Ink 

Delilah 

A  Legend  of  the  Foreign  Office 

The  Story  of  Uriah 

The  Post  That  Fitted 

A  Code  of  Morals 

Public  Waste 

What  Happened 

The  Man  Who  Could  Write 

Pink  Dominoes 

Municipal 

The  Last  Department 

OTHEP  VERSES 

My  Rival 

To  the  Unknown  Goddess 
The  Rupaiyat  of  Omar  Kal'vin 
Pagett,  M.  P. 
La  Nuit  Blanche 
The  Lovers'  Litany 
A  Ballad  of  Burial 
The  Overland  Mail 
Divided  Destinies 
The  Masque  of  Plenty 
The  Mare's  Nest 

The    Ballad    of    Fisher's    Boarding- 
house 
Possibilities 
Arithmetic  on  the  Frontier 


The  Song  of  the  Women 
The  Betrothed 
A  Ballade  of  Jakko  Hill 
The  Plea  of  the  Simla  Dancers 
'As  the  Bell  Clinks" 
Christmas  in  India 
The  Grave  of  the  Hundred  Head 
An  Old  Song 
Certain  Maxims  of  Hafiz 
The  Moon  of  Other  Days 
The  Fall  of  Jock  Gillespie 
What  the  People  Said 
The  Undertaker's  Horse 
One  Viceroy  Resigns 
The  Galley-slave 
A  Tale  of  Two  Cities 
In  Spring  Time 
GifFen's  Debt 
Two  Months.     In  June 
Two  Months.     In  September 
L'Envoi 


Dedication  to  Wolcott  Balestier 

The  Ballad  of  East  and  West 

The  Last  Suttee 

The  Ballad  of  the  King's  Mercy 

The  Ballad  of  the  King's  Jest 

With  Scindia  to  Delhi 

The  Ballad  of  Boh  Da  Thone 

The  Lament   of   the   Border    Cattle 

Thief 
The  Rhyme  of  the  Three  Captains 
The  Ballad  of  the  "Clampherdown  " 
The  Ballad  of  the  "Bolivar' 
The  Lost  Legion 
The  Sacrifice  of  Er-Heb 
The  Dove  of  Dacca 
The  Explanation 
An  Answer 
The  Gift  of  the  Sea 
Evarra  and  His  Gods 
The  Conundrum  of  the  Workshops 
In  the  Neolithic  Age 
The  Legend  of  Evil.     Parts  I,  II 
The  English  Flag 
'  Cleared  "_ 
An  Imperial  Rescript 
Tomlinson 

BARRACK-ROOM  BALr.ADS 

Danny  Deever 
Tommy 
Fuzzy-Wuzzy 
Soldier,  Soldier 
Screw-Guns 
Cells 

Gunga  Din 
Oonts 
Loot 

'Snarleyow" 
The  Widow  at  Windsor 
Belts 

The  Young  British  Soldier 
Mandalay 
Troopin' 

The  Widow's  Party 
Ford  o'  Kabul  River 
Gentlemen-Rankers 


192 


Route-Marchin' 
Shillin'  a  Day 
L'Envoi 

Department,        The        Last — 

Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Derelict,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Destinies,  Divided — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Destroyers,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Devil  and  the  Deep  Sea,  The 
— Short  Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Diana  of  Ephesus — Verse 

"And  the  years  went  on,  as  the  years 
must  do" 
See:  Plain    Tales    from     the    Hills, 
s.  v.  Venus  Anno  Domini 

Diego  Valdez,  The  Song  of — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Dinah    Shadd,    The    Courting 
of — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap.  The  same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
Stories,  q.  v. 

Dirge  of  Dead  Sisters — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected  \'erse, 
q.  V. 

Dirge  of  the  Langurs — Verse 

"The  night  we  felt   the   earth   would 
move" 
See:  Jungle      Book,      The      Second, 
s.    V.     The    Miracle    of    Purun 
Bhagat 

Discipline,    The     Bonds     of — 
Short  Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 


Dispensation,  The  New.    Parts 
I  and  II — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Disturber   of   Traffic,    The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Diversity    of    Creatures,   A — 
Short  Stories  and  Verse 

Contents 

As  Easy  as  A.  B.  C. 

MacDonough's  Song  (Verse) 

Friendly  Brook 

The  Land  (\'erse) 

In  the  Same  Boat 

"Helen  all  Alone"  (Verse) 

The  Honours  of  War 

The  Children  (Verse) 

The  Dog  Hervey 

The  Comforters  (Verse) 

The   Village  That   Voted    the   Earth 

Was  Flat 
The  Press  (Verse) 
In  the  Presence 
Jobson's  Amen  (Verse) 
Regulus 

A  Translation  (Verse) 
The  Edge  of  the  Evening 
Rebirth  (V'erse) 
The  Horse  Marines 
The  Legend  of  Mirth  (Verse) 
"My  Son's  Wife" 
The  Floods  (Verse) 
The  Fabulists  (Verse) 
The  \'orte.x 

The  Song  of  Seven  Cities  (Verse) 
■'Swept  and  Garnished" 
Mary  Postgate 
The  Beginnings  (Verse) 

Dives,  The  Peace  of — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Divided  Destinies — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc 

Doctor      of      Medicine,      A — 
Short  Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Dog  Hervey,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Dog,  Red — Short  Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Dog,     The     Power     of     the — 

Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 


193 


DoiiiNOES,  Penk — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

"DoxA  Ferentes,  Et" — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Dove  of  Dacca,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Dray   Wara   Yow   Dee — Short 
Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Dreadful  Night,  The  City  of 
— Descriptive  Narrative 

See:  From  Sea  to  Sea.  The  same 
narrative  reprinted  in  Life's 
Handicap,  q.  v. 

Dream  of  Duncan  Parrenness, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Drums  of  the  Fore  and  Aft, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc.  Same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier  Stories, 
q.  V. 

Drunk  Draf',  The  Big — Short 
Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Duncan        Barrenness,        The 
Dream   of — Short   Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

DuNGARA,   The   Judgment   of — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Dykes,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

"Dymchurch      Flit" — Short 
Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 


East   and   West,    The    Ballad 
of — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\  erse,  q.  v. 

'Eathen,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse  q.  v. 

Eddi's  Service — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Eden,    The    Garden    of — Dia- 
logue (in  the  "Story  of  the 

G.^DSBYS") 
See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Edge    of   the    E\t:ning,    The — • 
Short  Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Education  of  Otis  Yeere,  The. 
Parts       I       and      II — Short 

Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Egg-Shell,  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  the  story  '"Their 
La^vful  Occasions,"  in  TraflScs  and 
Discoveries 

Elephant,     My     Lord     the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Elephant's        Child,        The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 

Elephants,   Toomai    of    the — 
Short  Stories 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

End  of  the  Passage,  At  the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

En-Dor — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 


K)4 


England's  Answer — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  Fn'^lish.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\erse,  q.  v. 

English,     A     Song     of     the — 

Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

English  Flag,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Pitties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Envoy — Verse 

"Heh!     Walk  her  round!     Heave,  ah, 
heave  her  short  again." 
See:  Many    Inventions.       Reprinted 
in  Seven  Seas,  The,  and  in  Col- 
lected Verse. 

Epitaphs — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Erastasius   of   the   Whanghoa 
— Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Er-Heb,    The    Sacrifice    of — 

Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Error   in   the   Fourth  Dimen- 
sion, An — Short  Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

"Et  Dona  Ferentes" — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Evarra  and  His  Gods — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col  ■ 
lected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Evil,  The  Legend  of — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Exhibition,  On — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  funnel 


Explanation,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Explorer  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Eyes      of      Asia,     The — Short 
Stories 

Contents 

A  Retired  Gentleman 
The  Fumes  of  the  Heart 
The  Private  Account 
A  Trooper  of  Horse 


Fabulists,  The — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Fairies'  Siege,  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

Fallen  Idol,  A — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Fall  of  Jock  Gillespie,  The — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

False  Dawn — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Farewell  and  Adieu  to   You, 
Greenwich  Ladies — Verse 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Sea 
Warfare,  q.  v. 

"Fathers      of      Old,      Our" — 

Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Fatima — Dialogue        (in      the 
"Story  of  the  G.adsbys") 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Feet  of  the  Young  jSIen,  The 
— Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


195 


Female  of  the  Species,  The — 
Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Fifth    River,    Song    of    the— 
Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Filed  for  Reference,  To  Be— 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Files  The — ^\^erse 

See:  Five  Nations.  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Finances  of  the  Gods,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

"Finest  Story  in  the  World, 
The" — Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 
Fires,  The — Verse 

See:  Collected  Verse  (Dedication) 

Fire,       Through       the — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 
First  Chantey,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The._  The  same 
verse  reiirinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


First    Letter,     How    the — — 
Was  Written — Short  Story 
See:  Just  So  Stories 

Fisher's   Boarding-Housk,   The 
Ballad  of — Verse 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Five  Nations,  The — Verse 

Contents 

Dedication 

The  Sea  and  the  Hills 

The  Bell  Buoy 

Cruisers 

The  Destroyers 

White  Horses 

The  Second  \'oyage 

The  Dykes 

The  Sons  of  Piego  Valdez 

The  Broken  Aicn 


The  Feet  of  the  Young  Men 
The  Truce  of  the  Bear 
The  Old  Men 
The  Explorer 
The  Wage-Slaves 
The  Burial 
General  Joubert 
The  Palace 
Susse.K 

Song  of  the  Wise  Children 
Buddha  at  Kainakura 
The  White  Mans  Burden 
Pharaoh  and  the  Sergeant 
Our  Lady  of  the  Snows 
"Et  Dona  Ferentes'' 
Kitchener's  School 
The  Young  Queen 
Rimmon 
The  Old  Issue 
Bridge-Guard  in  the  Karroo 
The  Lesson 
The  Files 
The  Reformers 
Dirge  of  Dead  Sisters 
The  Islanders 
The  Peace  of  Dives 
South  Africa 
The  Settler 
Chant-Pagan 

M.  L  (Mounted  Infantry  of  the  Line) 
Columns 

The  Parting  of  the  Columns 
Two  Ko[)'es 
The  Instructor 
Boots 

The  Married  Man 
Lichtensberg 
Stellenbosh 

Half-Ballad  of  Waterval 
Piet 
'"Wilful-Missing"  » 

Ubique 
The  Keturn 
Recessional 

Flag   of   Their   Country,    The 
— Short  Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

Fleet,   The   Fringes   of   the— 
Articles  and  Verse 

Contents 

The  Auxiliaries  I  &  II 
Submarines  1  &  II 
Patrols  I  &  II 

Flies,    The    Bees     and    the — 
Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

FloodSjThe — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 


1C)() 


Flood  Time,  In — Short  Story 
See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Flowers,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

"Follow  Me  'Ome" — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

"For  All  We  Have  and  Are" — 

Verse 

See:     Years  Between,  The 

Ford  o'  Kabul  River — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Fore  and  Aft,  The  Drums  of 
THE — Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc.  Same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
Stories 

Foreign  Office,  A  Legend  of 
the — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Foreign  Office,  Wressley  of 
THE — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

For  Our  White  and  Our  Excel- 
lent Nights,  for  the  Nights 
of  Swift  Running — Verse 


See:  Jungle     Book.       The 
s.  V.  Red  Dog 


Second, 


For  to  Admire — Verse 


See: 


Seven  Seas,  The. 
verse  rejjrinted  i 
\  erse,  q.  v. 


The    same 
Collected 


Four  Angels,  The — Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Fourth   Dimension,   An    Error 
IN  THE — Short  Story 
See:  Day's  Work,  The 


Foxes,  Little — Short  Story 
See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

France — Verse 

See:  France  at  War.  The  same  verse 
rei)nnted  in  Years  Between,  The, 
q.  v. 

France  at  War — Articles 

Contents 

Poem:  France 

On  the  Frontier  of  Civilization 

The  Nation's  Spirit  and  a  New  In- 
heritance 

Battle  Spectacle  and  a  Review 

The  Spirit  of  the  People 

Life  in  Trenches  on  the  Mountain 
Side 

The  Common  Task  of  a  Great  People 

Frankie's  Trade — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Friendly  Brook — Short  Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Friend's       Friend,       A — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Fringes   of  the   Fleet,   The — 
Articles  and  Verse 

Contents 
The  Auxiliaries  I  &  II 
Submarines  I  &  II 
Patrols  I  &  II 

From  Lyden's  "Irenius" — Dia- 
logue 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

From  Sea  to  Se.a:  Letters  of 
Travel 

Special  correspondence  and  occasional 
articles  written  for  the  "Civil  and 
Military  Gazette"  c«id  ''The  Pio- 
neer" between  1887-g 
Part  I:  Letters  of  Marque.  From 
Sea  to  Sea 

Part   II:      From    Sea   to   Sea.     The 
City    of    Dreadful    Night.      Among 
the     Railway     Folk.       The     Giridih 
Coal-Ficlds 
See  also  above;  s.  v.  American  Notes. 


•97 


Fumes    of    the    Heart,    The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Eyes  of  Asia,  The 

*'  FuzzY-WuzzY  " — Verse 

(Soudan  Expeditionary  Force) 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.    The 
same    verse    reprinted   in    Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 


Q 


G.\DSBYS,  The   Story   of   the — 
Short  Stories 
See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Galley  Slave,  The — ^Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Gallio's  Song — Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Garden  of  Eden,  The — Dia- 
logue (m  THE  "Story  of  the 
Gadsbys") 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

G  ARM — A  Hostage  —  Short 
Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Gate  of  the  Hundred  Sorrows, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Gehazi — ^Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Gemini — Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

General  Joubert — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

General  Summary — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Gentlemen-Rankers — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 


Georgie  Porgie — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

German  Flag,  Reingelder  and 
THE — Short  Story 
See:  Life's  Handicap 

Germ-Destroyer,      A — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Gethsemane — Verse 

See:  Vears  Between.  The 

Ghost  Story,  My  Own  True — 
Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Giffen's  Debt — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Gift  of  the  Sea,  The — Verse 

See.  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Geridih      Coal-Fields,      The — 
Descriptive  NARRATrvE 

See:  From  Sea  to  Sea 

Give  the  Man  Who  Is  Not  Made 

— Verse 

Op.  15 

See:  Kim,  beginning  of  Chap.  XI 

Gloriana — Short  Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Goddess,    To    the    Unknown — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

God  from  the  IMachine,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three 

Golighty,     The      Arrest      of 
Lieutenant — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Good  Luck,  She  Is  Never  a 
Lady — Verse 

The  Wishing  Caps 

See:  Kim,  beginning  of  Chap.  IV 


198 


Good  Time,  A  Really — Short 
Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Gow's  Watch — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

GR.\^■D-;^I aster's  Defence,  The 
— Verse 

Your    patience    Sirs:    the    Devil    took 
me  up 
See:  Naulahka,    The.      Heading    for 
Chapter  IV 

Grasshopper,    Shiv    and    the — 
Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Grave  of  the  Hundred  Head, 
The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Great    Wall,    On    the — Short 
Story 

See:  ?uck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Greenhow      Hill,      On — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Griffiths     the     Safe     Man — 
Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Gunga  Din — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 


H 


Habitation      Enforced,      An — 
Short  Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

1 1  ADR  AMAUTI VeRSE 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Plain  Tales 
from  the  Hills,  q.  v. 

Hafiz,    Certain    Maxims    of — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 


OF     Waterval — 


Half-Ballad 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Halifax — Vi:rse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Hal  o'  the  Draft — Short  Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Harp      Song      of      the      Dane 
\\'oMEN — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Harte,  Bret 

See:  American  Notes 

H.A.UNTED       Subalterns — Short 
Story 

See:  Plahi  Tales  from  the  Hills 

"Have  You  News  of  My  Boy 
Jack?" — ^Vep^se 

See:    Sea  Warfare 

Head   of  the   District,   The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

"  Helen  All  Alone  " — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Henry     VII     and     The     Ship- 
Wrights,  King — ^Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Here  Come  I  to  My  Own  Again 

— Verse 

The  Prodigal  Son 

See:  Kim,  beginning  of  Chapter  V 

Heriot's  Ford — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  re^^rinted  under  the  title 
"Fi-ht  of  Heriot's  Ford,  The" 
in  1  he  Light  That  Failed 

Heritage,  Thi: — Verse 
See:  Songs  From  Books 


199 


HcR  Little  Responsibility — 
SnoPvT  Stop.y 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Her  IMajtigty's  Servants — 
Short  StoPvY 

See:  Jungle  Look,  The  First 

Hill  of  Illusion,  The — Dia- 
logue 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Himalayan — Verse 

The  sky  is  lead  and  our  faces  are  red. 
See:     Life's      Ilcncicap,      s.      v.       At 
the  End  of  the  Passage 

His  Brother's  Keeper — Short 
Story' 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

His  Chance  in  Life — Short 
Story'' 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

His  IMajesty  ties  King — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

His  Private  Honour — Short 
Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

His  Spots  Apje  tiie  Joy  of  the 
Leopard:  II:s  IIor.NS  Are  the 
Buffalo's  Pexde — ^Verse 

Maxims  of  Ealoo 

See:  Junfile  Eook,  The  First,  s.  v. 
Kaa's  Ilunting 

History  of  a  Fall,  The — Short 
Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

His  Wedded  V/ife — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Hobart — ^Veree 

See:  Seven  J^eas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  l^nf-Ksh.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Holy  V/ar,  Tn::— Versi: 

See:  y^nr*!  Between,  The 


"Honect  if.lEN,  Poor" — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Hong-Kong — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
cf  the  Fn.':-i:h.  The  same 
vorse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

PIoRSES,  V/iiiTE — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

House  of  Suddhoo,  In  the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Houses,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

PIousE     Surgeon,     The — Short 
Story 

See:  Actions  and  Ex.eactions 

Howli        Tiiana,        At — Short 
Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

How         Fear         Caxie — Short 
Story 

See:  Jungle  Eook.  The  Second 

How  tee  Alphabet  Was  Made 
— Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 

How  THE  Camel  Got  His  Hump 
— CiiORT  Story 
See:  Just  So  Stories 

How    the    First    Letter   W.as 
Written — Short  Story'' 
See:  Just  So  Stories 


How    the    Leopard     Got 
Spots — Short  Story 
See:  Just  So  Stories 


His 


How  the  Rhinoceros  Got  His 
S::iN — Short  Story 
See:  Just  So  Stories 

How     the     Whale     Got     His 
Throat — Si:o:.t  Story 
See:  Just  So  Stories 


200 


Hundred  Head,  The  Grave  of 
THE — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Huxdred    Sorrows,    The    Gate 
OF  THE — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 
HUNTING-SONG    OF    THE    SeEONEE 

Pack — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Hyenas,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Hymx  Before  Action — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


I 


I  Am  the  JMost  Wise  Baviaan, 
Saying  in  Most  Wise  Tones 
— Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  How  the 
Leopard  Got  His  Spots 

Idol,  A  Fallen — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

If Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

If  I  Were  Hanged  on  the  High- 
est Hill 

See:  The  Light  That  Failed 
Dedication 

I  Have  Eaten  Your  Bread 
AND  Salt — Verse 

Prelude 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

I  Keep  Six  Honest  Servin(;- 
;Men — Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  The 
Elephant's  Child 

Illusion,    The    Hill    of — -Dia- 
logue 
See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

20 1 


Imperial  Rescrlpt,  An — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected \erse,  q.  v. 

Impressionists,     The  —  Short 
Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

Imray,      The      Return       of — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

In  Ambush — Short  Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 
In  Black  and  White 

See:  Soldiers  Three 

Incarnation  of   Krishna   Mul- 
VANEY,  The — SHbRT  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap.  The  same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
Stories,  q.  v. 

Indl\,  Christmas  in — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

In  Error — Short  Story 
See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Infantry  of  the  Line,  IMounted 
— Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The,  s.  v.  M.  I. 
The  saTie  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Vers-',  q.  v. 

In    Flood    Timz — Short    Story 
See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

In    Lowestoft    A    Boat    Was 
L.\iD — Verse 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Sea 
Warfare,  q.  v. 

In  Partibus — Verse 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

In'  Seonee — Verse 

This  I  saw  when  the  rites  were  done 
See:  Xaulahka,    Ihe.      Heading    for 
Chapter  XII 

In  Shadowland — Verse 

We  meet  in  an  evil  land 
See:  Naulahka,    The.    Heading    for 
Chapter  IX 


In  Spring  Time — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
Instructor,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  sa,me 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


Interlude,       An 
Short  Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 


UNS.A.VORY — 


In  the  Daytime,  When  She 
Moved  About  Me — Verse 

Confessions 
See:  Plain     Tales    from     the     Hills, 
s.  V.    The  Bronckhorst  Divorce 
Case.    The  same  verse  reprinted 
in  Songs  From  Books,  q.  v. 

In  the  House  of  Suddhoo — . 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

In  the  IMatter  of  a  Priv.a.te— 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

In  the  Neolithic  Age — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

In  the  Presence — Short  Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

In  the  Pride  of  His  Youth — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

In  the  Rukh — Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

In  the  Same  Boat — Short  Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

In  the  State  of  Kot-Ki.m- 
harsen,  Where  the  Wild 
Dacoits  Abound — Verse 

Song  from  Libretto  of  Naulahka 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  VI 

IswARA,  The  Crystals  of — Verse 

"Because  I  sought  it  far  from  men" 
See:  Nauhahka,   The.      Heading   for 
Chapter  XIV 

202 


Islanders,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse  q.  v. 

"Irenius,"  from  Lyden's — Di.\- 

LOGUE 
See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Irish  Guards,  The — Vp:rse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

It! — Short  Story 
See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

It  Was  Not  in  the  Open  Fight 
— Verse 

Beoni  Bar 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills, 
s.  v.  The  Rout  of  the  White 
Hussars.  The  same  verse  re- 
printed in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.v. 

I've  Never  Sailed  the  Amazon 
— Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  The  Be- 
ginning of  the  Armadillos 

I  Will  Remember  What  I  Was, 
I  Am  Sick  of  Rope  and  Chain 
— Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First,  s.  v. 
Toomai  of  the  Elephants 


Jacket,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Jakko    Hill,    A    Ballade    of — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Jester,  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

Jkws    in    Shushan — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Jobson's  Amen — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 


Jock  Gillespie,  The  Fall  of— 
Verse 

See:  Depaxtmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Jordan,  The  Swelling  of— 
Dialogue  (in  the  "Story  of 
The  Gadsbys") 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

''Joss,"  The  Meaning  of — 
Article 

See:  Sea  Warfare 

JoiBERT,      General — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Joyous  Venture,  The  Knights 
OF  THE — Short  Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

JuBAL  AND  Tubal  Cain — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

Judgment  of  Dungara,  The 
— Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

judson  and  the  empire — 
Short  Story 

See:  ]Many  Inventions 

Juggler's  Song,  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 


June,  In — Verse 

See:  Departmental 


Ditties, 
Two  Months 


etc., 


Jungle     Book,     The     First — 
Short  Stories  and  Verse 

Conlenls 

Mowgli's  Brothers 

Hunting  Song  of  the   Seeonee  Pack 

( Verse) 
Kaa's  Hunting 

Road  Song  of  the  Bandar  Log  (Verse) 
Tiger!     Tiger! 
Mowgli's  Song  (Verse) 
The  White  Seal 
Lukannon  (Verse) 
At    the   Hole    Whire    He    \\ent    In 

(Verse) 
"Rikki-tikki-tavi " 
Darzee's  Chaunt  (Verse) 
Toomai  of  the  Elephants 


Shiv  and  the  Grasshopper  (Verse) 
Her  Majesty's  Servants 
Parade  Song  of  the  Camp   -Animals 
(Verse) 

Jungle    Book,    The    Second — 
Short  Stories  and  Verse 

Contents 

How  Fear  Came 
The  Law  of  the  Jungle  (Verse) 
The  Miracle  of  Purun  IJhagat 
A  Song  of  Kabir  (I'erse) 
Letting  in  the  Jungle 
Mowgli's  Song  Against  People  (Verse) 
The  Undertakers 
A  Ripple-song  (Verse) 
The  King's  Ankus 

The  Song  of  the  Little  Hunter  (Verse) 
Quiquern 
"Angutivun  Tina"  (Verse) 
Red  Dog 

Chil's  Song  (Verse) 
The  Spring  Running 
TheOutsong  (Verse) 

Jungle,      Letting      in      the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Jungle,    The    Law    of    the — 
Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Justice — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Justice,    The    Tree    of — Short 
Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Just  So  Song  Book,  The 

Being  the  songs  from  Just  So  Stories 
set  to  music  by  Edward  German 
For  Contents  See:    Just  So  Stories 

Just     So     Stories — For     Chil- 
dren— Stories  and  Verse 

Contents 
How  the  Whale  Got  His  Throat 
When  the  Cabin  Port-holes  Are  Dark 

and  Green  (Verse) 
How  the  Camel  Got  His  Hump 
The  Camel's  Hump  Is  an  Ugly  Lump 

(Verse) 
How  the  Rhinoceros  Got  His  Skin 
This  Uninhabited  Island  (Verse) 
How  the  Leopard  Got  His  Spots 
I  Am  the  Must  Wise  Baviaan    Say- 
ing in  Most  Wise  Tones  (\'erse) 
The  Elephant's  Child 
I    Keep    Six    Honest    Serving    Men 
(Verse) 

203 


The  Sing-Song  of  Old  Man  Kangaroo 
This  Is  the  Mouth-filling  Song  (\'erse) 
The  Beginning  of  the  Armadillos 
Roll  Down  to  Rio  (,Ver^e) 
How  the  First  Letter  Was  written 
There    Runs    a    Road    by    Merrow 

Down  (Verse) 
How  the  Alphabet  Was  Made 
Of  All  the  Tribes  of  legumai  (Verse) 
The  Crab  That  Played  with  the  Sea 
China-going  P  and  O's  {Verse) 
The  Cat  That  Walked  by  Himself 
Pussy  Can  Sit  by  the  Fire  and  Sing 

(Verse) 
The  Butterfly  That  Stamped 
There    Was    Never    a    Queen    Like 

Balkis  (Verse) 

Jutland,    Destroyers    at — Ar- 
ticle 

See:  Sea  Warfare 


K 


Kaa's  Hunting — Short  Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Kabir,  a  Song  of — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book ,  The  Second 

Kabul  Ri\t:r,  Ford  o' — X'erse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Kamakura,  Buddha  at — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Kangaroo,    The    Sing-Song    of 
Old  Man — Short  Story 
See:  Just  So  Stories 

Karroo,   Bridge-Guard   in    thi; 
— ^Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


Kaspar's 
Verse 


Song    in    "Varda"- 


See:  Traffics   and    Discoveries.     The 
same   verse   reprinted   in    Songs 
From  Books    under     the     title 
"Butterflies,"  q.  v. 


Kedar,  The  Tents  of — Dia- 
logue (in  the  "Story  of  the 
Gadsbys") 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Kidnapped — Short  Story 
See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Kim — Nov'EL 

Illustrated  by  John  Lockvvood  Kipling 

King  Anthony — \'erse 

Now  we  are  come  to  our  Kingdom 
See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XVIII.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books 
under  the  title  "The  Kingdom," 
q.  V. 

King  Henry  VH  and  thk  Ship- 
wrights— Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

King's  Ankus,  The — Short 
Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

King's    Jest,    The    Ballad    of 

THE — \^ERSE 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

King's  Mercy,  The  Ballad  of 

THE — ^VeRSE 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

KiN(;'s  Task,  The — Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Book.s,  q.  v. 


King,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven    Seas,   The. 
verse     reprinted 
Verse,  q.  v. 


The    same 
Collected 


Kipling,  John  Lockwood,  C.I.E. 

Father  of  Rudyard  Kipling.  Executed 
the  decorations  for  the  Second  Jungle 
Book  and  the  illustrations  for  Kim. 
Died  in  England,  January  29,  191 1. 


204 


Kipling,  Rudyard,  Biographi- 
cal Sketch  of — By  Charles 
Elliot  Norton 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills. 
Rei^rinted  in  Kiplini?  Stori-s 
and  Poems  Every  Child  Should 
Know 

Kipling     Stories     and     Poems 

Every  Child   Should  Know. 

Edited    by    INIary    E.    Burt 

and  W.  T.  Chapin,  Ph.D. 

Contents 

PART  I 

Roll  Down  to  Rio  ( Verse) 

I    Keep    Six    Honest    Serving    Men 

(Verse) 
A  Chapter  of  Picture  Pages  from  the 

story  of  "Mowgli's  Brothers" 
A  Selection  from  "  Mowgli's  Brothers  " 
Mowgli  Among  the  Monkeys 
(Selection  from  '"Kaa's  Hunting") 

PART    2 

The  Elephant's  Child 

The  Overland  Mail 

The  Legend  of  Evil 

The  Song  that  Toomai's  Mother  Sang 

to  the  Baby  (Verse) 
How  the  Camel  Got  His  Hump 

PART  3 

The  Cat  That  Walked  by  Himself 

Pussy  and  Binkie  (Verse) 

The  Beginning  of  the  Armadillos 

The  Ston,'  of  Ung  (Verse) 

The  Song  of  the  Banjo  (Verse) 

The  Liner  She's  a  Lady  (Verse) 

The    Ballad    of    the    Clampherdown 

(Verse) 
Fifty  North  and  Forty  West  (\'erse) 

P.\RT  4 

True  Royalty  (Verse) 

How  the  Rhinoceros  Got  His  Skin 

There  Runs  a  Road  by  Merrow  Down 

(Verse) 
Baa  Baa  Black  Sheep  (Verse) 
Wee  Willie  Winkie 
The  Dove  of  Dacca  (Verse) 
The   Smoke   upon   Your   Altar   Dies 

(Verse) 
Recessional 
L'Envoi  ("The  Seven  Seas") 

PART    5 

The  Sing-Song  of  Old  Man  Kangaroo 

(Verse) 
Fuzzy-Wuzzy  ( Verse) 
The  English  Flag  (Verse) 
The  King  (Verse) 
To  the  Unknown  Goddess  (\'erse) 
The  Galley  Slave  (Verse) 
The  Ship  That  Found  Herself 


PART   6 

A  Trip  Across  a  Continent  ("Captains 

Courageous") 
The  Children  of  the  Zodiac 
The  Bridge- Builders 
The  Miracles  (Verse) 
Our  Lady  of  the  Snows  (Verse) 
The  White  Man's  Burden  (Verse) 
The  Song  of  the  Women  (Verse) 

Kitchener's  School — Verse 

(A  translation  of  the  song  that  was  made 
by     a     Mohammedan     schoolmaster 
of  Bengal  Infantry.) 
See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 

verse     reprinted     in     Collected 

\'erse,  q.  v. 

Knife  and   tile   Naked  Chalk. 
The — Short  Story 
See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Knighthood,  The  New — Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Knights    of    the    Joyous    Ven- 
ture, The — Short  Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Kopjes,  Two — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,   q.  v. 

Krishna    Mulvaney,    The    In- 
carnation OF — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap.  The  same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
Stories,  q.  v. 


Ladies,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Lady  of  the  Snows,  Our — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations.  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Lament  of  the  Border  C.\ttle 
Thief,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 


20S 


Lamp,    Slaves    of    the — Parts 

I AND  II 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

Lamp^  The  Red — Short  Story 
See:    Abaft  the  Funnel 

Land,  The — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Lang    Men    o'    Larut,    The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Langurs,  The  Dirge  of  the — 
Verse 

"The   night   we   felt   the   earth   would 
move" 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second,  s.  v. 
The  Miracle  of  Purun  Bhagat 

La  Nuit  Blanche — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Last  Chantey,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.^  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Last  Department,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Last    of    the    Storles,    The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Last  Rhyme  of  True  Thomas, 
The — ^Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The._  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Last  Suttee,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

I>AST     Term,     The— Short 
Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

Lavelle,  The  Life  of  Xavier — 
Short  Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions,  s.  v. 
With  the  Night  Mail 


"La\vful  Occasions,  Their" 
— Parts  I  and  II— Short 
Stories 

See:  TraflScs  and  Discoveries 

Law  of  the  Jungle,  The — 
Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Law,  The  Treasure  .and  the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Law  Whereby  IMy  Lady  Moves, 
The — Verse 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chap.  XXI.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books 
under  the  title  "My  Lady's 
Law,"  q.  V. 

Learoyd's  Story,  Private — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Legend  of  Evil,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Legend  of  the  Foreign  Office, 
A — \'erse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

L' Envoi — Verse 

"There's  a  whisper  down  the  field  where 

the  year  has  shot  her  yield" 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse ,  s .  v.    The  Long  Trail 

L'Envoi — Verse 

"My  new-cut  ashlar  takes  the  light" 
See:  Life's  Handicap 

L'Envoi — Verse 

"When  Earth's  last  picture  is  painted 
and  the  tubes  are  twisted  and  dried" 
See:  Seven  Seas,  The 

L'Envoi — Verse 

"What  is  the  moral?     Who  rides  may 
read" 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 


206 


L'Envoi — Verse 

"And  they  were  stronger  hands   than 

mine" 
See:  Soldiers  Three.     The  same  verse 
reprinted  under  the  title  "Dedi- 
cation,    A"      in    Songs    From 
Books 

Leopard,    How    the — Got    His 
Spots — Short  Story 
See:  Just  So  Stories 

Lesson,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Letters  of  ]SL\rque 
See:  From  Sea  to  Sea 


Letters  on  Leave 

To     Lieutenant     John 
Rudyard  Kipling 
See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 


McHail     from 


Letting  in  the  Jungle — Short 
Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Let    Us    Now    Praise    Famous 
Men — Verse 

See:  Stalky  &  Co.  Dedication.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Libretto   of   Naulahka,   Songs 
From  the 

See:  Naulahka,  The,  at  the  beginning 
of  Chapters  V,  VI,  VIII,  and  XX. 

Lichtenberg — Verse 

(N.  S.  W.  Contingent) 
See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 
verse     reprinted     in     Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Life  in  Trenches  on  the  Moun- 
tain side — Article 

See:  France  at  War 

Lie,  The  Track  of  a — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Lieutenant      Golightly,      The 
Arrest       of — Short       Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 


Life's     Handicap — Short     Sto- 
ries 

Contents 

The  Lang  Men  o'  Larut 

Reingelder  and  the  German  Flag 

The  Wandering  Jew 

Through  the  Fire 

The  Finances  of  the  Gods 

The  Amir's  Homily 

Jews  in  Shushan 

The  Limitations  of  Pambe  Serang 

Little  Tobrah 

Bubbling  Well  Road 

The  City  of  Dreadful  Night 

Georgie  Porgie 

Naboth 

The  Dream  of  Duncan  Parrenness 

The    Incarnation    of    Krishna    Mul- 

vaney 
The  Courting  of  Dinah  Shadd 
On  Greenhow  Hill 
The  Man  Who  Was 
The  Head  of  the  District 
Without  Benefit  of  Clergy 
At  the  End  of  the  Passage 
The  Mutiny  of  the  Mavericks 
The  Mark  of  the  Beast 
The  Return  of  Imray 
American  Song 
Nangay  Doola 
Bertran  and  Bimi 
Moti  Guj — Mutineer 
L'Envoi  (Verse) 

Light     That      Failed,      The — 
Novel 

As  originally  conceived  by  the  author 
with  the  dedication  poem:  "Mother 
o'  Mme" 

Likes  o'  Us,  The — Short  Story 
See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Limitations  of  Pambe  Serang, 
The — Short  Story 
See:  Life's  Handicap 

"Liner   She's   a  Lady,"   The — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Lispeth — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Litany,  The  Lovers' — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Litany,  The  Wet — Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 


20- 


Little   Blind   Fish,   Thou   Art 
JVIarvellous  Wise — \'erse 

The  Charm  of  the  Lisara 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills, 
s.  V.  The  Lisara  of  Pooree 

Little  Foxes — Short  Story 
See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Little   Hunter,    The    Song    of 
THE — \'erse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Little    ISIore    Beef,    A — Short 
Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Little  Prep,  A — Short  Story 
See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

Little  Tobrah — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

London,  The  Declaration  of — ■ 
Verse 
See:  Years  Between,  The 

Long  Trail,  The — Verse 

See:  Collected    Verse.  Originally 

printed  in  Departmental  Ditties, 
etc.,  s.  V.  L'Envoi 

Looking-Glass,  The — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Look,    You    Have     Cast    Out 
Love  ! — Verse 

The  Convert 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills,  s.  v. 
Lispeth.  The  same  verse  re- 
printed in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.  v. 

Loot — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected \'erse,  q.  v. 

Lord  Roberts — \'erse 
See:    Years  Between,  The 

Lost  Legion,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
Slime  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected \  erse,  q.  v. 


Lost  Legion,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

"Love o'  Women " — Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Love  Song  of  Har  T)y.\l,  The — 
Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  the  story  '"  Be- 
yond the  Pale"  in  "Plain  Tales 
From  the  Hills" 

Lovers'  Litany,  The — Verse 

S:e:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

LuKANNON — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Lullaby,  A  St.  Helena — Verse 
See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

LUNGTUNGPEN,     ThE     TaKING     OF 

—Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills. 
The  same  story  reprinted  in 
Soldier  Stories,  q.  v. 

Lyden's  "Irenius,"  From — Dia- 
logue 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

M 

MacDonough's  Song— Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Madness  of  Priv^ate  Orthkris, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills. 
The  same  story  reprinted  in 
Soldier  Stories,  q.  v. 

Madras — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  Knglish.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Mail,  The  Overland — \'ers£ 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 


Main  Guard,  With  the- 
Story 


-Short 


See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc.  The  same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
Stories,  q.  v. 


208 


Maltese  Cat,  The — Short 
Story 

See:  Day's  Work  The 

Mamma,  Poor  Dear — Dia- 
j-OGUE  (in  the  ''Story  of  the 
Gadsbys") 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

M  andalay — Verse 

^ee:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

^^AN  Goes  to  Mam  Cry  the 
Challenge  Through  the 
Jungle ! 

See:  Jungle  Book.  The  Second,  s.  v- 
The  Spring  Running 

Manila,  A  Smoke  of — Short 
Stories 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

AIan  Who  Could  Write,  The 
— Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Man  Who  Was,  The — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap.  The  same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
Stories,  q.  v. 

Man  Who  Would  P)E  Kinc;,  The 
Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

M.\ny  Inventions — Short  Stor- 
ies and  Verse 

Conlenls 

To  the  True  Romance  {\'erse) 

The  Disturber  of  '1  rafTic 

A  Conference  of  the  Powers 

My  Lord  the  Klephant 

One  View  of  the  Question 
"The  Finest  Story  in  the  World"' 

His  Private  Honour 

.^nd  if  Ye   Doubt   the    ['ale    1    Tfll 
{Verse) 

A  Matter  of  Fact 

The  Lost  Legion 

In  the  kukh 

The  Only  Son  {Verse) 
''  Hrugglesmith" 
•  Love  o'  Women" 

The  Record  of  Hadalia  Hcrodsfoot 


Judson  and  the  I2mpire 
The  Children  of  the  Zodiac 
Knvoy 

Mare's  Xest,  The — Verse 

See:  De;  artm:;ntal  Ditties,  etc. 

M  AKMNEs,     The     Horse — Short 

STt)KY 
See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Marklake    Vv' itches     Short 
Story 

See:  Rewards  rnd  Fairies 
^r.VRK      OF      THE      TJeAST,      ThE — 

Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Mark    Twain 

See:  American  Notes 

M.\RRiED  M.\N,  The-  Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

M.VRY  Gloster,  The—  Verse 
See:  Seven    Seas,   The.      The   same 
verse     reprinted     in     Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

"Mary,  Pity  Women" — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\  erse.  q.  v. 

Mary  Postgate — Short  Story 
See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

M.\ry's  Son — Verse 
See:  Years  Between,  The 

>\Iasjid-al-.\qsa    of   Sayvii)    Ah- 
med    (W.A.HBI),     From     thi: — 
\'erse 
See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

^Tasque  of  Plenty,  The — ^Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Matter      of      Fact,   A— Short 
Story 
See:  Many  Inventions 

VI.v\  KRicKS,  The  Meeting  of  the 
— Short  Story 

See:  Life's  H.mdicap 


209 


Maxims    of    Hafiz,    Certain — 
Verse 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

]\IcAkdrew's  Hymn — Verse 

See:  Seven  Scts,  The.  The  same 
verse  re./rinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Melbourne — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  rCj-irinted  in  Collected 
V  erse,  q.  v. 

Menagerie  Aboard,  A — ^Short 
Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Men's     Side,     Song    of    the — 
Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

"Men  TH.A.T  Fought  at  ]\Iinden, 
The"— Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Men,  The  Minds  of — Article 
See:  Sea  Warfare 

Merchantmen,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Mesopotamia — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Mill   Dam,   Below   the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Trafl&cs  and  Discoveries 

M.   I.    (Mounted   Inf.^ntry   of 
the  Line) — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

"Minden,      The      Men      That 
Fought  At" — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\erse,  q.  v. 


Minepit  Shaw,  The  Ballad  of 
— Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 
ISIlRACLE      OF      PURUN       BhAGAT, 

The — Short  Story 

See:  Jungle  Book.  The  Second 

Miracles,  The— Verse 

•See;  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

Mirth,  The  Legend  of — \'erse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures  A 

Miss     Youghal's     Sais — -Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

jSIithras,    a    Song    to — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Montreal,  Quebec  and — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

IVIooN   OF   Other   Days,    The — 

Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

IMoRAL       Reformers,       The — 

Short  Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

Morrowbie  Jukes,  The  Strange 
Ride  of — Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Mother      Hive,      The — Short 
Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Mother-Lodge,  The — Verse 

5ee:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Mother  O'  Mine — Verse 

See:  Light  That  Failed.  The.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 


2  lO 


MoTi      Guj — Mutineer — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Mounted  Infantry  of  the  Line 
— Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The,  s.  v.  M.  I 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in 
Collected  \'erse,  q.  v. 

MowGLi's         Brothers — Short 
Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 
MowGLi's  Song — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

MowGLi's  Song  Against  People 
— Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Mrs.    Bathurst — Short    Story 

See:  Traffic  and  Discoveries 

Muhammad  Din,  The  Story  of 
— Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Mulholland's  Contract — 

Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Municipal — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Musketeers,       The       Three — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Mutiny     of     the    Mavericks, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

My  Boy  Back — Verse 
See:  Years  Between,  The 

My  Girl  She  Give  Me  the  Go 
Onst — Verse 

See:  Life's  Handicap  and  Soldier 
Stories,  s.  v.  The  Courting  of 
Dinah  Sbadd 


My    Great    and    Only- 
Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 


-Short 


My  Lady's  Law — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Naulahka, 
The,  q.  v. 

My  Lord  the  Elephant — Short 
Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

My  New-Cut  Ashlar  takes  the 
Light — Verse 

See:  Life's  Handicap,  s.  v.  L'Envoi 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

My  Own  True  Ghost  Story — 
Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

My  Rival — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

"My  Son's  Wife" — Short  Story 
See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  K 

My    Sunday    at    Home — Short 
Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

N 
N.\B0TH — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Naked  Chalk,  The  Knife  and 
THE — Short  Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Namgay  Doola — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Nation's  Spirit  and  a  New  In- 
heritance, The — Article 
See:  France  at  War 

Native  Born,  The — \'erse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collertcd 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Nativity,  A  — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 


21  I 


Natural  Theology — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Naulahka,    The:    A    Story    of 
West  and  East 

Written  in  collaboration  with  Wolcott 
Balestier 

RHYMED  CHAPTER  HEADINGS 

Ch.  I— There  Was  a  Strife  'Twixt  Man 

and  Maid 
Ch.  IJ — Beware  the  Man  Who's  Crossed 

in  Love 
Ch.  IV — Your  Patience,  Sirs,  the  Devil 

Took  Ue  Up 
Ch.  V— Now  It  Is  Not  Good  For  The 

Christian's  Health  to  Hustle  The 

Aryan  Brown 
Ch.  VI — In  the  State  of  Kot-Kumhar- 

sen,     Where     the     Wild     Dacoits 

Abound 
Ch.  \' 1 1— There  Is  Pleasure  In  the  Wet, 

Wet  Clay 
Ch.  VIII — W  hen  a  Lover  Hies  Abroad 
Ch.  IX— We  Meet  in  An  Evil  Land 
Ch.  X — Ye  Know  the  Hundred  Danger 

Time  When  Gay  with  Paint   and 

Flowers 
Ch.  XII— This   I   Saw  when  the  Rites 

Were  Done 
Ch.  XIII— Beat  Off  in  Our  Last  Fight 

Were  We? 
Ch.   XIv'^Because    I    Sought    It   Far 

from  Men 
Ch.  X\  II — Strangers  Drawn  from  the 

Ends  of  the  Earth,  Jewelled  and 

Plumed  Were  We 
Ch.  XVHI— Now    We    Are    Come    to 

Our  Kingdom 
Ch.  XIX— We  Pe  the  Gods  of  the  East 
Ch.  XX— Our  Little  Maid  That  Hath 

No  Breasts 
Ch.  XXI— The     Law     Whereby     My 

Lady  Moves 

Necessitarian.  The — Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Neolithic  Age,  In  the — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  rei>rinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Neutral,  The — Verse 

See:  Sea  Warfare 


Np:\v  Dispensation',  The 
I,  II — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 


-Parts 


New  Knighthood,  The — Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions.  The 

same  verse   reprinted   in    Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Night  Hunt,  The — Article 
See:  Sea  Warfare 


Night      JNIail,       With 
Short  Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 


THE — 


Night  Song  in  the  Jungle — 
Verse 

"Now  Rann,  the  Kite,  brings  home  the 
night" 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First,  s.  v. 
Mowgli's  Brothers 

Norton,  Ch.a.rles  Eliot 

Biographical  Sketch  of  Rudyard  Kipling 
See:  Plain  Talcs  from  the  Hills.    Re- 
printed in   Kipling  Stories  and 
Poems     Every     Child     Should 
Know 

Not  IX  the  Thick  of  the  Fight — 
Verse 

See:  Sea  Warfare 

Now  It  Is  Not  Good  for 
THE  Christian's  Health  to 
Hustle  the  Aryan  Brown — 
Verse 

Solo  from  Libretto  of  Naulahka 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  V.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.  v. 

Now  Rann,  the  Kite,  Brings 
Home  the  Night — X'erses 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First,  s.  v. 
Mowgli's  Brothers 

Now  We  Are  Come  to  Our 
Kingdom — Verse 

King  Anthony 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XVIII 

NUIT  BL.A.NCHE,  L\ — VeRSE 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Nursing  Sister,  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Naulahka, 
The  under  the  title  "Queen's 
Song  From  Libretto  of  Nau- 
lahka," q.  V. 


212 


o 


Of  all  the  Tribe  of  Tkgitmai 
— Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  How 
the  Alphabet  \V  as  Made 

Of        Those        Called — Short 
Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Oh!  Hush  Thee,  IMy  Baby,  the 
Night  Is  Behind  Us — Verse 

Seal  Lullaby 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First,  s.  v. 
The  White  beal 

Oldest  Song,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Old  Guard,  Song  of  the — 
Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Old  Issue,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v 

Old  ]\Ien,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The._  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Old  ]\Ien  at  Pevensey — Short 
Story 

See:  Puck  of  Book's  Hill 

Old       jMothkpv       Laidinwool^ 
Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

Old  Song,  An — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Omaha  (Nebraska) 

See:  American  Notes 

Omar    K.a.l'vin,    The    Rlpaiyat 
OF — ^V'erse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

One  ^Ioment  Past  Our  Bodif.s 
Cast — Verse 

See:  Jun^'e  r-)o'c.  The  Fecond,  s.  v. 
Letting  ia  t.ie  Ju.io'.e 


One  Viceroy  Resigns — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

One  View  of  the   Question — 
Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Only       .a.       Subaltern — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Only  Son,  The — Verse 

The   Only   Son   lay   do-.vn   again    and 
dreamed  that  he  dreamed  a  dream 
See:  Many     Inventions,     s.     v.     In 
The  Rukh.    The  same  verse  re- 
printed in  Songs  From   Books, 
q.  V. 

On     the      City      Wall — Short 
Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 


On    the    Great    Wall- 
Story 
See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 


-Short 


On  the  Strength  of  a  Likeness 
— Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

.007 — Short  Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

OoNTs ! — Verse 

(Northern  India  Transport  Train) 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.    The 
same    verse    reprinted    in    Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Op.  .•? — Verse 

There  is  pleasure  in  the  wet,  wet  clay 
See:  Naulahka,   The.       Heading   for 
Chapter  \TI 

Op.  15 — Verse 

"Give  the  man  who  is  not  made" 
See:  Kim,  beginniiig  ol  Chapter  X  [ 

Ortheris,     The     ^Madness     of 
Private — Short  Stop.y 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills. 
The  same  story  reprinted  in 
Soldier  Stories,  q.  v. 

Other    Man,   The — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 


213 


Otis  Yeere,  The  Education  of 
- — Parts  I  and  II — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

"Our  Fathers  Also" — Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

"Our  Fathers  of  Old"  — 
Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Our  Lady  of  the  Snows — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Our  Little  Maid  that  Hath 
No  Breasts — Verse 

Queen's   Song  from  Libretto   of   Nau" 
lahka 

See:  Naulahka.  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XX 

Outlaws,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

OuTSONG,  The — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Overland  Mail,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Over  the  Edge  of  the  Purple 
Down — ^Verse 

See:  Day's    Work,     The,     s.     v.     The 
Brushwood  Boy 


Pagett,  M.  p. — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Palace,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\erse,  q.  v. 

Pale,  Beyond  the — Short  Story 
See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 


Palms,  The — Verse 

And  if  ye  doubt  the  tale  I  tell 

See:  Many    Inventions,    s.    v.  A 

Matter  of  Fact 

Pambe  Serang,  The  Limitations 
OF — Short  Story 
See:  Life's  Handicap 

Parade-Song     of      the      Camp 
Animals — Verse 
See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Partibus,  In — Verse 

See:  Abaft  the  Fuimel 

Parting  of  the  Columns,  The 

— Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Party,  The  Widow's — \'erse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Patrols,  I  and  II — Article 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  story  reprinted  in  Sea 
Warfare,  q.  v. 

Peace  of  Dives,  The — \'erse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

People    Great,    The    Common 
Task  of  a — Article 

See:  France  at  War 

People,  The  Spirit  of — Article 

See:  France  at  War 

Pevensey,  Old  ]Men  at — Short 
Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Phantom      'Rickshaw,      The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Pharaoh   and   the    Sergeant — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
verse,  q.  v. 


214 


Philadelphia — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

PicT  Song,  A — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

PiET — Verse 

(Regular  of  the  Line) 
See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 
verse     reprinted     in     Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Pig — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Pilgrim's  Way,  A — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Pink  Dominoes — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Pit's  Mouth,  At  the — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Pit  Th.at  They  Digged,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills — 
Short  Stories 

(Twenty-eight    of    these    appeared    in 

the  Civil  and  Military  Gazette) 

Contents 

Biographical  Sketch,  by  Charles 
Eliot  Norton,  of  Rudyard  Kipling 

Lispeth 

Three  and — an  Extra 

And  Some  Are  Sulky,  and  Some 
Will  Plunge  (Verse) 

Thrown  Away 

Miss  Youghal's  Sais 

'Yoked  with  an  Unbeliever" 

False  Dawn 

The  Rescue  of  Pluffles 

Cupid's  Arrows 

Haunted  Subalterns 

The  Three  Musketeers 

His  Chance  in  Life 

Watches  of  the  Night 

The  Other  Man 

Consequences 

The  Conversion  of  Aurelian  Mc- 
Goggin 

The  Taking  of  Lungtungpen 

Bitters  Neat 

A  Germ-Destroyer 

Kidnapped 


The  Arrest  of  Lieutenant  Golightly 

In  tlie  House  of  buddhoo 

His  Wedded  Wi.'e 

The  Broken-link  Handicap 

Beyond  the  Pale 

In  Error 

A  Bank  Fraud 

Tod's  Amcnd.nient 

The  DauLchtcr  of  the  Regiment 

In  the  Pride  of  His  Youth 

Pig 

It  Was  Not  In  the  Open  Fight  (Verse) 

The  Rout  of  the  While  Hussars 

The  Bronckhorst  Divorce-Case 

And  the  Years  Went  on  as  the  Years 
Must  Do  (Verse)  _ 

Venus  Anno  Domini 

Little  Blind  Fi^h,  Thou  Art  Marvel- 
lous Wise  (Verse) 

The  Bisara  of  Pooree 

A  Friend's  Friend 

The  Gate  of  the  Hundred  Sorrows 

The  Madness  of  Private  Ortheris 

The  Story  of  Muhammad  Din 

On  the  Strength  of  a  Likeness 

Wressley  of  the  Foreign  Office 

By  Word  of  Mouth 

To  Be  Filed  for  Reference 

Plea    of    the    Simla    Dancers, 
The — ^Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Plenty,     The     Masque      of — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Pluffles,     The     Rescue     of — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Poor        Dear        Mamma — Dia- 
logue (in  the  "Story  of  the 
Gadsbys") 
See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Pooree,      The      Bis.vra       of — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

"Poor  Honest  ISIen" — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Portland  (Oregon) 

See:  American  Notes 

Poseidon's  Law — Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 


Possibilities — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Post  That  Fitted,  Ti:e — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Power     of     the     Dog,     The — 
Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Powers,  A  Conference  of  the 
— -Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Prairie,  The — ^Verse 
See:  Songs  From  Books 

Prayer  of  ]Miriam  Cohen,  The 
— Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  the  story  "  Dis- 
turber of  Trafac,  The,"  in 
Many  Inventions,  q.  v. 

Prelude — Verse 

"I  have  eaten  your  bread  and  salt" 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Press,  The — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Pride  of  His  Youth,  In  the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

"Priest   in    Spite   of    Himself, 
A ' ' — Short  Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Private    Account,    The — Short 
Story 

See:  Eyes  of  Asia,  The 

Private  Copper,  The    Compre- 
hension 07 — Short  Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Private    Honour,    His — Short 
Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Private      Learoyd's      Story — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three ,  etc. 


Private    Ortheris,    The    Mad- 
ness OF — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills.  The 
same  story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
Stories 

Pro-Consuls,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Prodigal  Son,  The — ^\''erse 

"Here  come  I  to  my  own  again" 
See:  Kim,  beginning  of   Chapter   V. 
The    same    verse    reprinted    in 
Songs  From  Books 

Prophets  at  Home — Verse 

See:  Songs  From.  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Puck  of  Pook's 
Hill,  q.  v. 

Prophets    Have     Honour    All 
over  the  Earth — ^\"erse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill,  s.  v.  Hal  o' 
the  Draft 

Public  Waste — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Puck     of    Poor's    Hill — Short 
Stories  and  \'erse 

Contents 

Puck's  Song  {Verse) 

Wcland's  Sword 

A  Tree  Song  {Verse) 

Young  Men  at  the  ^lanor 

Sir  Richard's  Song  {Verse) 

Harp    Song    of    the    Dane    Vv'omen 

{Verse) 
The  Knights  of  the  Joj'ous  A'enture 
Thorkild's  Song  {Verse) 
Old  Men  at  Pevensey 
The  Runes  on  Weland's  Sword  {Verse) 
A  Centurion  of  the  Thirtieth 
A  British-Roman  Song  {Verse) 
On  the  Great  Wall 
A  Song  to  Mithras  {Verse) 
The  W  inged  Hats 
A  Pict  Song  {Verse) 
Hal  o'  the  Draft 
A  Smuggler's  Song  {Verse) 
The  Bee  Boy's  Song  {Verse) 
"Dymchurch  Flit" 
A  Three-Part  Song  {Verse) 
Song  of  the  Fiftli  River  {Verse^' 
The  Treasure  and  the  Law 
The  Children's  Song  {Verse) 

Puck's  Song — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 


2l6 


PURUN     B  HAG  AT,     TlIE     MlRACLF. 

OF — Short  Story 

See:   Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Pussy  Can  Sit  by  the  Fire  and 
Sing — Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  The  Cat 
That  Walked  by  Himself 

Puzzler,       The — Short      Story 
See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Puzzler,  The — Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 


Quebec  and  Montreal — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Queen's  Men.  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Rewards  and 
Fairies  under  the  title  '"Two 
Cousins,  The,"  q.  v. 

(Queen's    Song    from    Libretto 
OF  Naulahka — Verse 

Our  little  maid  that  hath  no  breasts 
See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XX.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  under  the  title  "Nurs- 
ing Sister,  The,"  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

(^)uestion,  The — \'ekse 
See:  Years  Between,  The 

Quiquern— Short  Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

R 

Rabbi's  Song.  The — Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Railway  Folk,  Among  the — 
See:  From  Sea  to  Sea 

Rangoon — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\  erse,  q.  v. 


Ravages  and  Repairs — Article 
See:  Sea  Warfare 

Rebirth — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  .\ 

Recall,  The — Verse 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

Recantation,  A — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Recessional — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Record    of     B.a.dalia    Herods- 
FOOT,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Red  Dog — Short  Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Red  Lamp,  The — ^Short  Story 
See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Red  War-Boat,  Song  of  th£^ 

\^ERSE 
See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Reference,  to  Be  Filed   for— 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Reformers,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  rejjrinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Reformers,  The  Moral-    Silort 
Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

Regulus — Short  Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  .\ 

Reingelder  and  the  (German 
Flag — Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Rescript,    An    Imperial — Verse 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.    The 
same    verse    reprinted    in    Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 


217 


Rescue     of     Pluffles,     The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Retired  Gentleman,    A — Short 
Story 

See:  Eyes  of  Asia,  The 

Return  of  Imray,  The — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Return  of  the  Children,  The 
— Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Return,  The — Verse 

(All  Anns) 
See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 
verse     reprinted     in     Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Rewards    and    Fairies — Short 
Stories  and  Verse 

Contents 

A  Charm  {Verse) 

Introduction 

Cold  Iron 

Cold  Iron  {Verse) 

The  Two  Cousins  {Verse) 

Gloriana 

The  Looking-Glass  {Verse) 

A   Truthful    Song — Parts    I    and    II 
( Verse) 

The  Wrong  Thing 

King  Henry  VII  and  the  Shipwrights 
{Verse) 

The  Way  Through  the  Woods  {Verse) 

Marklake  Witches 

Brookland  Road  {Verse) 

The  Run  of  the  Downs  {Verse) 

The  Knife  and  the  Naked  Chalk 

Song  of  the  Men's  Side  {Verse) 

Philadelphia  {Verse) 

Brother  Square-toes 

II— {Verse) 

A  St.  Helena  Lullaby  {Verse) 
"A  Priest  in  Spite  of  Himself" 
"Poor  Honest  Men"  {Verse) 

Eddi's  Service  {Verse) 

The  Conversion  of  St.  Wilfred 

Song  of  the  Red  War-Boat  {Verse) 

An  Astrologer's  Song  {Verse) 

A  Doctor  of  Medicine 
"Our  Fathers  of  Old"  {Verse) 

The  Thousandth  Man  {Verse) 

Simple  Simon 

Frankie's  Trade  (^Verse) 

The  Ballad  of  Minepit  Shaw  {Verse) 

The  Tree  of  Justice 

A  Carol  {Verse) 


Rhinoceros,      How      the- 
His  Skin — Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 


-Got 


Rhyme  of  the  Three  Captains, 
The — Verse 

(This  ballad  appears  to  refer  to  one  of 
the  e.xploits  of  the  notorious  Paul 
Jones,  the  American  Pirate.  It  is 
founded  on  fact.) 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected \  erse,  q.  v. 

Rhyme  of  the  Three  Sealers, 
The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Rhyme   of  True   Thomas,    The 
Last — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

''Rikki-tikki-tavi"     —      Short 
Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

"Rimini"— Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

Rimmon — -Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Ripple  Song,  A — Verse 
See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Rival,  My — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Road-Song     of     the      Bandar- 
LoG — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Roll  Down  to  Rio — Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  Beginning 
of  the  Armadillos 

Romance,  To  the   True — ^Verse 

See:  ^lany  Inventions.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse  and  The  Seven  Seas,  q.  v. 

Romulus  and  Remus — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 


2l8 


Roses  Red  and  Roses  White — 
Verse 

Blue  Roses 

.SVf;  The  Lifjht  That  Failed.  Head- 
ing for  Chapter  Vll 

Route-Marchin' — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected \'erse,  q.  v. 

Rout    of   the   White   Hi  ssars, 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Rowers,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

RuKH,  Ix  THE — Short  Story 

Sec:  Many  Inventions 

Runes     on     Weland's     Sword, 
The — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Runners,  The — Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Running    of    Shindand,    The — 
Verse 

There's  a  convict  more  in  the  Central 
Jail 

.SVf.-  Life's  Handicap,  s.  v.  The 
Head  of  the  District 

Run     of     the     Downs,     The — 
\'erse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Rup.myat     of     Omar     Kau'vin, 
The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Russia  to  the  Pacifists — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 


St.      Helena      Lullaby,      .\— 
\'erse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 


St.  Wilfred,  The  Conversion 
of — Short  Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Sack  of  the  Gods,  The — Vers?: 

Strangers  drawn  from  the  ends  of  the 

earth,  jewelled  and  |  lumed  were  we 

See:  Naulahka,    The.      Heading    for 

Chapter  XVII.    The  same  verse 

reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books, 

q.  v. 

S.vcrifice  of  Kk-TIkh,  The — ■ 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Safe  Man,  Griffiths,  the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Sahib's   War,   A — Short   Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

S.\LT  Lake  City 

See:  American  Notes 

San  Francisco,  Impressions  of 

See:  American  Notes 

S.\PPERS — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Collected  Verse,  q.  v. 

S.VYYiD  Ahmed  (Wabahi),  From 
the  ]\Iasjid-al-Aqsa  of — 
Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

School  Song,  A — Verse 

See-  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Stalky  &  Co. 
as  a  Dedication,  q.  v. 

Scindia  to  Delhi,  With — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  Tiie 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Screw-Guns — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 


2iy 


Sea     and     the     Hills,     The — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Seal  Lullaby— Verse 

"Oh!  hush  thee,  my  baby,   the   night 
is  behind  us" 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First,  s.  v. 
The  White  Seal 

Seal,        The        White — Short 
Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Sea  of  Marmora,   Business   ix 
the — Article 

See:  Sea  Warfare 
Seattle  (Washington) 

See:  American  Notes 

Sea     Warfare — Articles     and 
Verse 

Contents 
Tke  Fringes  of  the  Fleet 
Tales  of  "The  Trade" 
Destroyers  at  Jutland 

Sea-Wife,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


Second-rate        Woman, 
Short  Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 


A- 


Second  Voyage,  The — -Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Seeonee  Pack,  Hunting-Song 
OF  THE — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Sending    of    D.\na    Da,    The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

September,  In — Verse 

See:  DeF)artmenVal  Ditties,  etc.,  s.  v. 
Two  Months 


Sergeant's      Weddin',      The— 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

"Serv.\nt  When  He  Reigneth, 
A" — Verse 

Sec:  Songs  From  Books 

Service  !Man — -Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The 

Service  Songs — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

Sestin.a  of  the  Tramp-Royal — 

\'erse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Settler,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Seven  Seas,  The — -Verse 

Contents 

Dedication  to  the  City  of  Bombay 
A  Song  of  the  English 
The  First  Chantey 
The  Last  Chantey 
The  Merchantmen 
McAndrew's  Hymn 
The  Miracles 
The  Native-Born 
The  King 

The  Rhyme  of  the  Three  Sealers 
The  Derelict 
The  Song  of  the  Banjo 
"The  Liner  She's  a  Lady" 
Mulholland's  Contract 
Anchor  Song 
The  Sea-Wife 
Hymn  Before  Action 
To  the  True  Romance 
The  Flowers 

The  Last  Rhyme  of  True  Thomas 
The  Story  of  Ung 
The  Three-Decker 
An  American 
The  Mary  Gloster 
Sestina  of  the  Tramp-Royal 

BARRACK-ROOM  BALLADS 

"Back  to  the  Army  .-Vgain" 
"Birds  of  Prey"  March 
"Soldier  an'  Sailor  Too" 
Sappers 


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That  Day 
'The  Men  That  Fought  at  Minden  " 

Cholera  Camp 

The  Ladies 

Bill  'Awkins 

The  Mother-Lodge 
"Follow  Me  'Ome" 

The  Sergeant's  Weddin' 

The  Jacket 

The  'Eathen 

The  Shut-Eye  Sentry 
"Mary  Pity  Women!" 

For  to  Admire 

L'Envoi 

Shadow    of    His    Hand,    The — 

Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Shillin'  A  Day — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Ships  Destroy  Us  Above,  The — 
Verse 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Sea  War- 
fare, q.  V. 

Ship  That  Found  Herself,  The 
— Short  Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Shipwrights,   King   Henry  VII 
AND  the — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Ship     and    the    Gr.^sshopper — 
\'erse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Shush  AN,  Jews  in^Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Shut-Eye   Sentry,   The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Simla    D.\ncers,    The    Plea    of 
THE — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Singapore — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v,  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


Sing-Song    of   Old    Man    Kan- 
garoo, The — Short  Story 
See:  Just  So  Stories 

Simple  Simon — Short  Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Sir  Richard's  Song — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

Slaves  of  the  Lamp.  Parts 
I  AND  II — Short  Story 

See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

"Sleipner"  Late  "Thurinda" 
— Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Smoke  of  Manila,  A — Short 
Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Smuggler's  Song,  A — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

"  Snarleyow  " — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.    The 
same    verse    reprinted    in    Col 
lected  Verse,  q.  v. 

"Soldier  an'  Sailor  Too''  - 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Soldier,  Soldier — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  Tlie 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Soldiers  Three,  The  "Story  of 
the  G.xdsbys,"  In  Bl.\ck  and 
White — Short  Stories  and 
Dialogues 

Contents 
The  God  from  the  Machine 
Of  Those  Called 
Private  Learoyd's  Story 
The  Big  Drunk  Draf 
The  Wreck  of  the  Visigoth 
The  Solid  ATuldoon 
With  the  Main  Guard 
In  the  Matter  of  a  Private 
Black  Jack 


22  1 


THE  "story  of  the  GADSBYS" 
Poor  Dear  Mamma  {Dialogue) 
The  World  Without  (Dialogue) 
The  Tents  of  Kedar  (Dialogue) 
With  Any  Amazement  (Dialogue) 
The  Garden  of  Eden  (Dialogue) 
Fatima  (Dialogue) 

The  Valley  of  the  Shadow  (Dialogue) 
The  Swelling  of  Jordan  (Dialogue) 
L'Envoi  (Verse) 

IN  BLACK  AND  W'HITE 

Dray  Wara  Yow  Dee 

The  Judgment  of  Dungara 

At  Howli  Thana 

Gemini 

At  Twenty -Two 

In  P'luod  Time 

The  Sending  of  Dana  Da 

On  the  City  Wall 

Soldier     Stories — Short     Sto- 
ries 

Contents 

With  the  Main  Guard 

The  Drums  of  the  Fore  and  Aft 

The  Man  Who  Was 

The  Courting  of  Dinah  Shadd 

The  Incarnation  of  Krishna  Mulvaney 

The  Taking  of  Lungtungpen 

The  Madness  of  Private  Ortheris 

Solid     Muldoon,     The — Short 
Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Solo   from   Libretto    of    Nau- 
lahka — Verse 

Now  it  is  not  good  for  the  Christian's 
health  to  hustle  the  Aryan  brown 
See:  Naulahka,    The.      Heading    for 
Chapter  V 

Something  I  Owe  to  the  Soil 
That    Grew — Verse 

See:  Kim,  beginning  of  Chapter  \TII 

Song— Verse 

We  be  the  Gods  of  the  East 

See:  Naulahka,    The.      Heading    for 
Chapter  XIX 

Song  Against  People,  IMowgli's 
— Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Song  at  Cock-Crow,  A — ^Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 


Song   from   Libretto    of   Nau- 
lahka— Verse 

In  the  State  of  Kot-Kumharsen,  where 
the  wild  diicoits  '  bound 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  far 
Chapter  \T 

Song  in  Storm,  A — -Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Song  of  Diego  Valdez,  The — 
\'erse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Song  of  Kabir,  A — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songg 
From  Books,  q.  v. 

Song     of     the     Banjo,     The — 
Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Song   of    Seven    Cities,    The — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Song    of    the     Cities     The— 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Song     of     the     Dead,     The — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  rep'-inted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Song  of  the  English,  A — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\erse,  q.  v. 

Song    of    the    Fifth    River — 
Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 


222 


SCNG      OF      THE      LaTHES,      ThE — 

Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Song   of   the    Little    Hunter, 
The — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Song    of    the     Men's     Side — 
Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Song     of     the     Old     Guard — 
Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Song  of  the  Red  War-Boat — 
Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

Song  of  the  Sons,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

Song  of  the  Wise  Children — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Song     of     the     Women,     A — 

Verse 

Ye   know  the  Hundred  Danger  Time 
when  gay  with  paint  and  flowers 
See:  Naulahka,    The.      Heading    for 
Chapter  X 

Song    of    the    Women,    The — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Song  of  Travel,  A — Verse 
See:  Songs  From  Books 

Songs  From  Books — Verse 

Contents 

"Cities  and  Thrones  and  Powers" 
The  Recall 
Puck's  Song 

The  Way  Through  the  Woods 
A  Three  Part  Song 
The  Run  of  the  Downs 


Brookland  Road 

The  Sack  of  the  Gods 

The  Kingdom 

Tarrant  JNloss 

Sir  Richard's  Song 

A  Tree  Song 

Cuckoo  Song 

A  Charm 

The  Piairie 

Cold  Iron 

A  Carol 
''My  New  Cut  Ashlar" 

Eddi's  Service 

The  Fairies'  Siege 

Mithras 

The  New  Knighthood 

Harp  Song  of  the  Dane  Women 

Chapter  Headings 

The  Thousandth  Man 

The  Winners 

A  St.  Helena  Lullaby 

The  Captive 

The  Puzzler 

Hadramauti 

Gallio's  Song 

The  Bees  and  the  Flies 
"Our  Fathers  Also" 

A  British-Roman  Song 

A  Pict  Song 

The  Stranger 
''Timini" 

"Poor  Honest  Men" 
"When  the  Great  Ark" 

Prophets  at  Home 

Jubal  and  Tubal  Cain 

The  Voortrekker 

A  School  Song 
"A  Servant  When  He  Reigneth" 
"Our  Fathers  of  Old" 

The  Heritage 

Song  of  the  Fifth  River 

Chapter  Headings 

The  Children's  Song 

If— 

The  Prodigal  Son 

The  Necessitarian 

The  Jester 

A  Song  of  Travel 

The  Two-Sided  Man 

An  Astrologer's  Song 

'The  Power  of  the  Dog" 

The  Rabbi's  Song 

The  Bee  Boy's  Song 

The  Return  of  the  Children 

Old  Mother  Laidinwool 

The  Looking-Glass 

The  Queen's  Men 

The  City  of  Sleep 

The  Widower 

The  Prayer  of  Miriam  Cohen 

Gow's  Watch 

The  Wishing  Caps 
"By  the  Hoof  of  the  Wild  Goac"" 

Chapter  Headings 

Song  of  the  Red  War-Boat 

Blue  Roses 

Butterflies 

My  Lady's  Law 


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The  Nursing  Sister 

The  Love  bong  of  Har  Dyal 

A  Dedication 

Mother  o'  Mine 

The  Only  Son 

Romulus  and  Remus 

The  Egg-Shell 

The  King's  Task 

Poseidon's  Law 

A  Truthful  Song 

A  Smuggler's  Song 

King  Henry  Vll  and  the  Shipwrights 

The  Wet  Litany 

The  Ballad  of  Minepit  Shaw 

Heriot's  Ford 

Frankie's  Trade 

The  Juggler's  Song 

Thorkild's  Song 

Song  of  the  Men's  Side 

The  Four  Angels 

A  Song  of  Kabir 

Song,  The  Oldest — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Song  to  Mithras,  A — \'erse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 
Sons  of  jMartha,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Sons,     The      Song     of     the — 
Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  _  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

South  Africa — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Spies'  March,  The — -Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Spirit    of    the    People,    The — 
Article 

See:  France  at  War 

Spring     Running,    The — Short 
Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Spring  Time,  In — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

.Square-toes,       Brother — Short 
Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 


Stalky  &  Co. — Short  Stories 

Contents 

Dedication  {Verse) 

In  Ambush 

Slaves  of  the  Lamp,  Part  I 

An  Unsavory  Interlude 

The  Impressionists 

The  Moral  Reformers 

A  Little  Prep 

The  Flag  of  Their  Country 

The  Last  Term 

Slaves  of  the  Lamp,  Part  II 

Steam  Tactics — Short  Story 

See:  TrafEcs  and  Discoveries 

Stellenbosh — ^\'erse 

(Composite  Columns) 

See:   Five    Nations,    The.     The     same 

verse     reprinted     in     Collected 

Verse,  q.  v. 

Stockyard  Chorus,  Toolungala 
— Verse 

And  some  are  sulky,  while  some   will 
plunge 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills,  s.  v. 
Thrown  Away 

Story  of  Muhammad  Din,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Story  of  the  Gadsbys 

See:  Soldiers  Three 

Story  of  Ung,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Story  of  Uriah,  The — Verse 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Strange    Ride    of    Morrowbie 
Jukes,  The — Short  Story 
See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Strangers  Dr.a.wn  From  the 
Ends  of  the  E.vrth,  Jewelled 
.\ND  Plumed  Were  We — 
Verse 

The  Sack  of  the  Gods 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XVII 


Str-anger,  The — ^Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 


224 


Strength  of  a  Likeness,  On 
The — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Study     of     an     Elevation,     in 
Indian  Ink — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
SlBALTERN,         OnLY         A — ShOKT 

Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Subalterns,      Haunted — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Submarines  I   and  II — Article 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  story  reprinted  in  Sea  War- 
fare, q.  V. 

SuDDHo,  In  the  House  of — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Sunday"    at    Home,    My— Short 
Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Supplementary     Chapter,     A — 
Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

Surgeon,     The     House-  Short 
Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Sussex — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  re.jrinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Suttee,  The  Last — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Swelling     of     Jordan,     The — 
J3i.\LOGUE  (in  the  "Story  of 
THE  Gadsbys") 
See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

"  Swept  and  Garnished  " — Short 
Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 


Sydney — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.    A  Song 

of     the     Kn^lish.  The     same 

verse     reprinted  in     Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 


Tacoma  (Washington) 

See:  American  Notes  above 

Taking  of  Lungtungpen,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills.  The 
same  story  reprinted  in  Soldier 
-Stories,  q.  v. 

Tale     of     Two     Cities,     A — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Tarrant  Moss — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Plain  Tales 
from  the  Hills. 

T.  A. — Thomas  Atkins — Verse 

Dedication     poem     to     Barrack-Room 
Ballads 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Tents    of     Ked.ar,     The — Dia- 
logue (IN  THE  "Story  of  the 

(iADSBYS") 
See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

i'li.vT  Day — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  ihe  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

The  Camel's  Hu.mp  Is  an  Ugly 
Lump — Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  How  the 
Camel  Got  His  Hump 

"TiiKiR    Lawful    Occasions" — 
Parts  I,  II — Short  Story 
.See;  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

The  Xi(;ht  We  Felt  the  Earth 
Would  Mcjve — Verse 

T)irge  of  the  Langurs 

-Ste.-  Jungle  H(K)k,  The  Second,  3.  v. 
The  Miracle  of  Purun  Bhagat 


225 


Theology,  Natural — Verse 

Sef:  Years  Between,  The 

The  Only  Son  Lay  Down  Again 
AND  Dreamed  That  He 
Dreamed     a     Dream — Verse 

The  Only  Son 

See:  Many    Inventions,     s.    v.       In 
the  Rukh 

The  People  of  Eastern  Ice, 
They  Are  Melting  Like  thf: 
Snows — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second,  s.  v. 
Quiquem 


There   Came  to 
Poor  Exile  of 


the   Beach   a 
Erin — Verse 


American  Song 

See:  Life's  Handicap, 
Doola 


s.  V.    Namgay 


There  Is  a  Crack  Packet — 
Crack  Packet  o'  Fame — 
Verse 

See:  Captains  Courageous.     Chapter 
IV 

There  Is  Pleasure  ix  the  Wet, 
Wet  Clay — Verse 


Op.  3 

See: 


Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  VH.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.  V. 


There      Runs      A      Road      by 
Merrow  Down — Verse 
See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.    How  the 
First  Letter  Was  Written 

There's    a    Convict    ]More    in 
the  Central  J.\il — \'erse 

The  Running  of  Shindand 

See:  Life's    Handicap,    s.    v.       The 
Head  of  the  District 


See:  Naulahka,  T^e.  Heading  for 
Chapter  I.  The  same  verse  re- 
printed in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.  v. 

There  Was  Never  a  Queen  like 
Balkis— Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  The 
Butterfly  That  Stamped 

The    Sky    Is    Le.\d    and    Our 
Faces  Are  Red — ^Verse 


Himalayan 

See:  Life's  Handicap,  s.  v. 
End  of  the  Passage 


At    the 


The    Stream    Is    Shrunk — The 
Pool  Is  Dry — Verse 

Dedication 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

The   Wind   Went   Down   With 
the  Sunset — Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries,  s.  v. 
Their  Lawful  Occasions,  Part  II 

"They" — Short  Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Things  and  the  jMan — \'erse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

This    I    Saw   When    the    Rites 
Were  Done — Verse 

In  Seonee 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XII.  The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.  V. 


This     Is     the 
Song — Verse 


AIouth-Filling 


See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  The 
Sing  Song  of  Old  Man  Kan- 
garoo 


Just    So    Stories,    s.    v.       How 
the  Rhinoceros  Got  His  Skin 


There's  a  Whisper  Down  the     This      Uninhabited      Isl.\nd — 
Field  Where  the  Year  Has         Verse 
Shot  Her  Yield — Verse  5 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  s.  v. 
L'Envoi.  Same  verse  reprinted 
in  Collected  \'erse,  s.  v.  The 
Long  Trail 

There   Was    a    Strife    'Twixt 
Man  and  Maid — Verse 

Auchinleck's  Ride 


To — Verse 

Barrack-Room 


Thomas   Atkins, 

Dedication     Poem     to 
Ballads 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 


226 


Thorkild's  Song — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Thousandth  Man,  The — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Three  and — .\n  Extra — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Three    Captains,    The    Rhyme 
of    the — \"erse 

(This  ballad  appears  to  refer  to  one  of 
the  exploits  of  the  notorious  Paul 
Jones,  the  American  Pirate.  It  is 
founded  on  fact) 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Three-Decker  ,  The — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Three     Musketeers,        The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Three-Part   Song,   A — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

Three    Sealers,    The    Rhyme 
of  the — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 


Three  Young  Men, 
Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 


Through   the   Fire — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Thrown  Away — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

"Thurint)a,"  "Sleipner,"  Late 
— Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 


"Tiger!   Tiger!" — Short   Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Tiglath  Pileser — Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

To  Be  Filed  for  Reference — 

Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

ToBRAH,    Little — Short    Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

Tod's  Amendment — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Tomb  of  His  Ancestors,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Tom  LIN  SON — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Tommy — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Toolungala  Stockyard  Chorus 

— Verse 

And  some  are  sulky,  while  some   will 
plunge 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills,  s.  v. 
Thrown  Away 

toomai    of    the    elephants — 
Short  Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 


^Pjjj. To  THE  True  Rom.\nce — Verse 


See:  Many  Inventions.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse  and  The  Seven  Seas,  q.  v. 

To    the    Unknown    Goddess — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

To  Thomas  Atkins — Verse 

Dedication     Poem     to     Barrack-Room 

Ballads 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.    The 
same    verse    reprinted    in    Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 


227 


Track    of    a    Lie,    The— Short      Tree    of   Justice,    The— Short 
Story  Story 

Su:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 


"Trade,  The"— Verse 
See:  Sea  Warfare 

"Trade,  the,"    Tales   of — Ar- 
ticle 

See:  Sea  Warfare 

Traffics      and      Discoveries — 
Short     Stories     and     Verse 

Contents 

From  the  Masjid-al-Aqsa  of  Sayyid 
Ahmed  (Wahabi)  ( Verse) 

The  Captive 

Poseidon's  Law  {Verse) 

The  Bonds  of  Discipline 

The  Runners  {Verse) 

A  Sahib's  \\  ar 

The  Wet  Litany  {Verse) 
"Their  Lawful  Occasions" — Part  I 
"Their  Lawful  Occasions" — Part  II 

The  King's  Task  ( Verse) 

The  Comprehension  of  Private  Cop- 
per 

The  Necessitarian  {Verse) 

Steam  Tactics 

Kaspar's  bong  in  "Varda"'  (Verse) 
"Wireless" 

Song  of  the  Old  Guard  {Verse) 

The  Army  of  a  Dream — Part  I 

The  Army  of  a  Dream — Part  II 

The  Return  of  the  Children  {Verse) 
"They" 

From  Lyden's  "Irenius"  {Verse) 

Mrs.  Bathurst 
"Our  Fathers  Also"  {Verse) 

Below  the  Mill  Dam 

Traffic,   The   Distukbkr    of — 
Short  Story 

Sec:  Many  Inventions 

Trail,  The  Long — Verse 

See:  Collected  \  erse  and  Depart- 
mental Ditties,  etc.  s.  v.  L'Envoi 

Tramp-Royal,    Sestina    of    the 
— Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Translation,  A — Verse 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Treasure  and  the  Law,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 


See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Tree  Song,  A — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  V. 

Trench  Life  on  the  Mountain 
Side — Article 

See:  France  at  War 

Trooper  of  Horse,  A — 

See:  Eyes  of  Asia,  The 

Troopin' — Verse 

(Our  Army  in  the  East) 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  «-1c.    The 
same    verse    reprinted    in    Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Truce    of    the    Bear,     The — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

True      Romance,      To      the — 
Verse 

Sec:  Many  Inventions.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse  and  Seven  Seas,  The,  q.  v. 

True  Thomas,  The  I>ast  Rhyme 
OF — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\  erse,  q.  v. 

Truthful  Song,  A — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books,  q.  v. 

Twenty-Two,  At — Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

'J'wo  Cities,  A  Tale  of — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Two  Cousins,  The — Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Songs  From 
Books  under  the  title  "Queen's 
Men,  The."  q.  v. 


228 


Two  Kopjes-   Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

Two  Months  (In  June) — Verse 
See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Two  iVIoNTHS  (In  September) — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 
Two-Sided  Man,  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Kim,  q.  v. 


u 


Ubique — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Ulster — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Undertaker's  Horse,  The — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Undertakers,  The — Short  Story 
See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second 

Under  the  Deodars,  The 
Phantom  'Rickshaw  and  Wee 
Willie  Winkie  —  Short 
Stories  and  Dialogue 

Contents 

The  Education  of  Otis  Veere.     Parts 

I,  II 
At  the  Pit's  Mouth 
A  \\  ayside  Comedy 
The  Pit  Ihat  They  Digged 
The  Hill  of  Illusion  [Dialogue) 
A  Second-rate  Woman 
Only  a  Subaltern 

THE  PHANTOM  'rICKSHAW 

The  Phantom  'Rickshaw 

My  Own  True  Ghost  Story 

The  Track  of  a  Lie 

The  Strange  Ride  of  Morrowhie  Jukes 

The  Man  Who  Would  Be  King 

WEi:  WILLIE  WINKIE 

Wee  Willie  Winkie 

Baa,  Baa,  black  ^-heep 

His  Majesty  the  King 

The  Drums  of  the  1-ore  and  Aft 


Ung,  The  Story  of     Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

United  States,  Impressions  of 

THE 
See:  American  Notes 

Unknown    Goddess,    To    the — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Unsavory      Interlude.      An — 
Short  Story 
See:  Stalky  &  Co. 

Uriah,  The  Story  of — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 


Valley  of  the  Shadow,  The — 
Dialogue  (in  the  "  Story  of 
THE  Gadsbys") 
See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

"Varda,"    Kaspar's   Song   In — 
Verse 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

\'eil  Them,  Cover  Them.  Wall 
Them  Round — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  Second,  s.  v. 
Letting  in  the  Jungle 

Venus      .\nno      Domini   -Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Verdicts,  The— Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

Veteran,  The — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

\'icTORiA — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  A  Song 
of  the  English.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
\'erse,  q.  v. 

X'illage  That  Voted  thi:  Earth 
Was  Flat,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Diversity  ol  Creatures,  A 


2H) 


Virginity,  The — Verse 
See:  Years  Between,  The 

Visigoth,  The  Wreck  of  the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

VOORTREKKER,  ThE — VeRSE 
See:  Songs  From  Books 

Vortex,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Voyage,  The  Second — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

w 

Wage-Slaves,  The — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Walking    Delegate,    A — Short 
Story 
See:  Day's  Work,  The 

Wandering    Jew,     The — Short 
Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

War-Boat,  Song  of  the  Red — 
Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

Warfare,    Sea — Short    Stories 
and  Verse 

Contents 
The  Fringes  of  the  Fleet 
Tales  of  '"The  Trade" 
Destroyers  at  Jutland 

War,  France  At — Short  Stories 

Contents 

Poem:  France 

On  the  Frontier  of  Civilization 

The  Nation's  Spirit  and  a  New  In- 
heritance 

Battle  Spectacle  and  a  Review 

The  Spirit  of  the  People 

Life  in  Trenches  on  the  Mountain 
Side 

The  Common  Task  of  a  Great  People 


War,  The  Holy — Verse 
See:  Years  Between,  The 

War,  The  Honours  of — Short 
Story 

See:  Diversity  of  Creatures,  A 

Waste,  Public — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Watches  of  the  Night — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

WATERV.A.L,    Half-Ballad    of — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Wayside      Comedy,      A — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Way  Through  the  Woods,  The 

— Verse 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

We  Be  the  Gods  of  the  East — 
Verse 

Song 

See:  Naulahka,  The.  Heading  for 
Chapter  XIX 

Wedded       Wife,       His — Short 

Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Wee     Willie     Winkie — Short 
Story 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Weland's  Sword — Short  Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

Weland's    Sword,    The    Runes 
ON — Verse 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 

We  Meet  in  an   Evil   Land — 
Verse 

In  Shadowland 
See:  Naulahka,    The.      Heading    for 
Chapter  IX.     The  same  verse 
reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books, 
q.  V. 


230 


Wet  Litany,  The — Verse 

Sre:  Traffics  and  Discoveries.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Songs 
From  Books,  q.  v. 


Whale,     How     the — Got 
Throat — Short  Story 

See:  Just  So  Stories 


His 


Whanghoa,  Erastasius  of  the 
— Short  Story 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 

What  Happened — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

What  Is  the  Moral?  Who 
Rides  ^Iay  Read — Verse 

See:  Story  of  the  Gadsbys  in  Soldiers 
Three,  s.  v.  L'Envoi 

What  of  the  Hunting,  Hunter 
Bold? — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First,  s.  v. 
Tiger!     Tiger! 

What  the  People  Said — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

When  a  Lover  Hies  Abroad — 
Verse 

Chorus    from    Libretto    of    Naulahka 

See:  Naulahka,    The.      Heading    for 

Chapter  VIII.    The  same  verse 

reprinted  in  Songs  From  Books, 

q.  v. 

When  Earth's  Last  Picture  Is 
Painted — Verse 

See:  Seven  Seas,  The,  s.  v.  L'Envoi. 
The  same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v 

When  'Omer  Smote  'is  Bloomin' 
Lyre — Verse 

Dedication    poem     to     Barrack-Room 
Ballads 

See:  Seven    Seas,    The.      The    -ame 

verse     reprinted     in     Collected 

Verse,  q,  v. 

When  the  Cabin  Port-Holes 
Are  Dark  and  Green — 
Verse 

See:  Just  So  Stories,  s.  v.  How  the 
Whale  Got  His  Throat 


"When  the  Gre.\t  Ark " — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

Where  the  East  Wind  Is 
Brewed — Verse 

See:  Fringes  of  the  Fleet,  The.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Sea 
Warfare,  q.  v. 

White  Horses — Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

White  Hussars,  The  Rout  of 
the — Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

White  Man's  Burden,  The^ 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
Verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

White  Seal,  The — Short  Story 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First 

Who  Hath  Desired  the  Sea — 
The  Immense  and  Contempt- 
uous Surges? — Verse 

See:  Kim,  beginning  of  Chapter  XIII 

Who  Hath  Desired  the  Sea— 
The  Sight  of  Salt  Water 
Unbounded? — Verse 

See:  Kim,  beginning  of  Chapter  XII 

Widow  at  Windsor,  The — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col 
lected  Verse,  q.  v. 

Widower,  The — \'erse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

Widow's  Party,  The — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

"Wilful-Missing" — V'ersk 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  rejirinted  in  Collected 
N'erse,  q.  v. 

William  the  Conqueror — Short 
Story 

See:  Day's  Work,  The 


231 


Windsor,  The  Widow  at — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected \  erse,  q.  v. 

Winged  Hats,  The — Short  Story 
See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill. 

Winners,  The — Verse 

See:  Songs  From  Books 

' '  Wireless  " — Short  Story 

See:  Traffics  and  Discoveries 

Wise  Children,  Song  of  the — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Wishing  C.a.ps,  The — Verse 

"Good  Luck,  she  is  never  a  lady" 
See:  Kim,    beginning   of    Chap.    JV. 
The    same   verse    reprinted    in 
Songs  From  Books,  q.  v. 

Witches,  Marklake — Short 
Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

With  Any  Amazement — Dia- 
logue (in  the  "Story  of  the 
Gadsbys") 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

With  Mirth,  Thou  Pretty  Bird, 
Rejoice 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions,  s.  v.  The 
House  Surgeon 

Without  Benefit  of  Clergy — 
Short  Story 

See:  Life's  Handicap 

With  Scindia  to  Delhi — Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

With  the  Main  Guard—Short 
Story 

See:  Sokliers  Three,  etc.  The  same 
story  reprinted  in  Soldier  Stories, 
q.  v. 


With  the  Night  Mail — Short 
Story 

A  Story  of  2,000  A.D.  (.Together  with 
e.vtracts  from  the  magazine  in  which 
it  appeared) 

Extracts: 
Aerial  Board  of  Control 
Notes 

Correspondence 

Review  (Life  of  Xavier  Lavelle) 
Advertisements 
See:  Actions  and  Reactions 

Women,  A  Song  of  The— Verse 

Ye  Know  the  Hundred  Danger    Time 
When  Gay  with  Paint  and  Flowers 
See:  Naulahka,    The.      Heading    for 
Chapter  X 

"Women,  Love  o'  " — Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 

Women,  The  Song  of  the — 
Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc. 

Word  of  Mouth,  By — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Workshops,  The  Conundrum 
OF  THE — X'erse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

World  Without,  The — Dia- 
logue (in  the  "Story  of  the 
G.\dsbys") 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Wreck  of  the  Visigoth,  The — 
Short  Story 

See:  Soldiers  Three,  etc. 

Wressley      of      the      Foreign 
Office — Short  Story 
See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Wrong  Thing,  The— Short 
Story 

See:  Rewards  and  Fairies 

X 

Xavier  Lavelle,  The  Life  of 
— Short  Story 

See:  Actions  and  Reactions,  s.  v. 
With  the  Night  Mail 


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Years  Between,  The — Verse 

Contents 

The  Rowers 

The  \'eterans 

The  Declaration  of  London 

Ulster 

The  Covenant 

France 
"For  All  We  Have  and  Are" 

A  Song  in  Storm 

The  Outlaws 

Zion 

Lord  Roberts 

The  Question 

The  Choice 

The  Holy  War 

The  Houses 

Russia  to  the  Pacifists 

The  Irish  Guards 

A  Nativity 

En-Dor 

A  Recantation 

My  Boy  Jack 

The  Verdicts 

Mesopotamia 

The  Hyaenas 

The  Spies'  March 

The  Sons  of  Martha 

Mary's  Son 

The  Song  of  the  Lathes 

Gethsemane 

The  Pro-Consuls 

The  Craftsman 

Things  and  the  Man 

The  Benefactors 

The  Dead  King 

A  Death-Bed 

Gehazi 

The  \irginity 

A  Pilgrim's  Way 

The  Oldest  Song 

Natural  Theology 

A  Song  at  Cock-Crow 

The  Female  of  the  Species 

Epitaphs 
"The  City  of  Brass" 

Justice 

\'eere,  Thk  Education  of  Otis 
— Parts  I  axd  II — -Short  Storv 

See:  Under  the  Deodars,  etc. 

Ve  Know  the  Hundred  Danger 
Time  When  Gay  with  Paint 
AND  Flowers 

A  Song  of  the  Women 
See:  Naulahka,    The. 
Chapter  X 

Yellowstone  Park 

See:  American  Notes 


Heading    for 


"Yoked  with  an   Unbeliever" 

— Short  Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

You  Can  Work  It  Out  by 
Fractions  or  by  Simple  Rule 
OF  Three — Verse 

See:  Jungle  Book,  The  First,  s.  v. 
Her  Majesty's  Servants 

Youghal's  Sais,  Miss — Short 
Story 

See:  Plain  Tales  from  the  Hills 

Young  British  Soldier,  The — 

Verse 

See:  Departmental  Ditties,  etc.  The 
same  verse  reprinted  in  Col- 
lected Verse,  q.  v. 

Young  Men,  The  Feet  of  the — 
Verse 

See:  Five  Nations,  The.  The  same 
verse  reprinted  in  Collected 
Verse,  q.  v. 

Young  ISIen  at  the  Manor — 
Short  Story 

See:  Puck  of  Pook's  Hill 


Young     Men,     The 
Short  Stories 

See:  Abaft  the  Funnel 


Thrke — 


Young  Queen,  The — Verse 

(The      commonwealth      of      Australia, 
inaugurated  New  Year's  Day,  1901) 
See:  Five  Nations,  The.     The  same 

verse    reprinted    in      Collected 

Verse,  q.  v. 

Your  P.vtience,  Sirs;  the  Devil 
Took  Me  Up — Verse 

The  Grand  Master's  Defence 

See:  Naulahlca,    The.      Heading     for 
Chapter  IV 


ZioN — Verse 

See:  Years  Between,  The 

ZiON,    The    Doorkeepers     of — 
Verse 

See:  Sea  Warfare 

Zodiac,  The  Children  of  the — 
Short  Story 

See:  Many  Inventions 


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O.  HENRY 


LITTLE  PICTURES  OF 
O.  HENRY 

Bv  Arthur  W.  Page 


I 


N  Greensboro,  North  Carolina,  at  the 
time  of    Will    Porter's    youth,  there 
were    four  classes  of  people:   decent 
l^^'--'5  K«cC^  white  folks,  mean  white  folks,  decent 
"^''Y^M^iM  "niggers"  and  mean  "niggers."  Will 
Porter  and  his  people  belonged  to  the  first  class. 

If  any  dependence  can  be  laid  upon  early  "in- 
fluences" that  affect  an  author's  work,  in  O.  Henry's 
case  we  must  certainly  consider  Aunt  "Lina" 
Porter.  She  attended  to  his  bringing  up  at  home 
and  he  attended  her  instruction  at  school.  His 
mother  died  when  \\  ill  Porter  was  very  young,  and 
his  aunt,  Miss  Evelina  Porter,  ran  the  Porter  house- 
hold as  well  as  the  school  next  door,  and  a  most 
remarkable  school  it  was. 

During  these  days  Will  showed  decided  artistic 
talent,  and  it  was  predicted  that  he  would  follow 
in  the  footsteps  of  his  kinsman,  Tom  Worth,  the 
cartoonist,  but  the  literary  instinct  was  there,  too, 
and  the  quaint  dry  humor  and  the  keen  insight  into 
the  peculiarities  of  human  nature. 

.After  the  short  school-days  Porter  found  employ- 
ment as  prescription  clerk  in  the  drugstore  of  his 
uncle,  Clarke  Porter,  and  it  was  there  that  his  gen- 
ius as  an  artist  and  writer  budded  forth  and  gave 
the  first  promise  of  the  work  of  after  years.  The  old 
Porter  drugstore  was  the  social  club  of  the  town  in 
those  days.     There  were  some  rare  characters  who 

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gathered  around  that  old  stove,  some  queer  per- 
sonalities, and  Porter  caught  them  and  transferred 
them  to  paper  by  both  pen  and  pencil  in  an  illus- 
trated comedy  satire  that  was  his  first  public  lit- 
erary and  artistic  effort. 

When  this  was  read  and  shown  around  the 
stove  the  picture  was  so  true  to  life  and  caught  the 
peculiarities  of  the  dramatis  personae  so  aptly  it  was 
some  time  before  the  young  playwright  was  on 
speaking  terms  with  some  of  his  old  friends. 

Young  Porter  was  true-hearted  and  steadfast  to 
those  he  cared  for,  as  gentle  and  sensitive  as  a 
woman,  retiring  to  a  fault,  pure,  clean,  and  hon- 
orable. In  these  characteristics  Will  Porter  followed 
in  his  father's  footsteps. 

in  1 88 1  Will  Porter  went  to  Texas.  He  ne\er 
again  lived  in  Greensboro,  hut  Greensboro  was 
never  altogether  out  of  his  mind.  Many  years 
later,  when  he  was  living  in  New  York,  he  wrote 
this  account  of  himself — an  account  which  gives  an 
inkling  of  the  whimsical  charm  of  the  man  and  his 
fondness  for  the  old  life  in  the  old  land  of  his  birth. 

"  1  was  born  and  raised  in  'No'th  Ca'lina'  and  at 
eighteen  went  to  Texas  and  ran  wild  on  the  prairies. 
Wild  yet,  but  not  so  wild.  Can't  get  to  loving  New 
Yorkers.  Live  all  alone  in  a  great  big  two  rooms 
on  quiet  old  Irving  Place  three  doors  from  Wash. 
Irving's  old  home.  Kind  of  lonesome.  Was  think- 
ing lately  (since  the  April  moon  commenced  to 
shine)  how  I'd  like  to  be  down  South,  where  I 
could  happen  over  to  Miss  Ethel's  or  Miss  Sallie's 
and  sit  on  the  porch — not  on  a  chair — on  the  edge  of 
the  porch,  and  lay  my  straw  hat  on  the  steps  and 
lay  my  head  back  against  the  honeysuckle  on  the 
post — and  just  talk.  .And  Miss  Ethel  would  go  in 
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directly  (they  say  presently  up  here)  and  bring  out 
the  guitar.  She  would  complain  that  the  K  string 
was  broken,  but  no  one  would  believe  her,  and  pretty 
soon  all  of  us  would  be  singing  the  'Swanee  River' 
and  'in  the  Evening  by  the  Moonlight'  and — oh,  gol 
darn  it,  what's  the  use  of  wishing." 

II  —  1  Ex.\N  Days 

Will  Porter  found  a  new  kind  of  life  in  Texas — a 
life  that  filled  his  mind  with  that  rich  variety  of 
types  and  adventures  which  later  was  translated 
into  his  stories.  Here  he  got — from  observation, 
and  not  from  experience,  as  has  often  been  said, 
for  he  was  never  a  cowboy — the  originals  of  his 
Western  characters  and  Western  scenes.  He  looked 
on  at  the  more  picturesque  life  about  him  rather 
than  shared  in  it;  though  through  his  warm  sym- 
pathy and  his  vivid  imagination  he  entered  into 
its  spirit  as  completely  as  any  one  who  had  fully 
lived  its  varied  parts. 

Friends  who  knew  him  intimately  saw  other 
sides  of  Will  Porter's  character.  With  them  his 
boyish  love  of  fun  and  of  good-natured  and  some- 
times daredevil  mischief  came  again  to  the  surface, 
as  well  as  those  refinements  of  feeling  and  manner 
that  were  his  heritage  as  one  of  the  "decent  white 
folks"  of  Greensboro.  .And  with  them,  too,  came 
out  the  ironical  fate  that  pursued  him  most  of  his 
life — to  be  a  dreamer  and  yet  to  be  harnessed  to 
tasks  that  brought  his  head  from  the  clouds  to  the 
commonplaces  of  the  store  and  the  street.  Per- 
haps it  was  this  very  bending  of  a  sky-seeking  im- 
agination to  the  dusty  comedy  of  every  day  that 
brought  him  later  to  see  life  as  he  pictured  it  in  "The 
Four  Million,"  with  its  mingling  of  Caliph  Haroun- 

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al-Raschid's  romance  with  the  adventures  of  shop- 
girls and  restaurant  keepers.  At  any  rate,  even  the 
Texas  of  the  drug-clerk  days  and  of  the  bank- 
clerk  period  appealed  to  his  sense  of  the  humorous 
and  romantic  and  grotesque.  Here  is  what  one  inti- 
mate of  those  days  recalls  of  his  character  and 
exploits: 

"Will  Porter,  shortly  after  coming  to  Texas, 
became  a  member  of  the  Hill  City  Quartette,  of 
.'\ustin,  composed  of  C.  E.  Hillyer,  R.  H.  Edmundson, 
Howard  Long,  and  himself.  Porter  was  the  littlest 
man  in  the  crowd,  and,  of  course,  basso  profundo. 
He  was  about  five  feet  six  inches  tall,  weighed 
about  one  hundred  and  thirty  pounds,  had  coal 
black  hair,  gray  eyes,  and  a  long,  carefully  twisted 
moustache;  looked  as  though  he  might  be  a  combina- 
tion between  the  French  and  the  Spanish,  and  1 
think  he  once  told  me  that  the  blood  of  the  Hug- 
uenot flowed  in  his  veins.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
accomplished  gentlemen  1  ever  knew.  His  voice 
was  soft  and  musical,  with  just  enough  rattle  in  it 
to  rid  it  of  all  touch  of  effeminacy.  He  had  a  keen 
sense  of  humor,  and  there  were  two  distinct  meth- 
ods of  address  which  was  characteristic  with  him 
— his  business  address  and  his  friendly  address.  As 
a  business  man,  his  face  was  calm,  almost  expres- 
sionless; his  demeanor  was  steady,  even  calculated. 
He  always  worked  for  a  high  class  of  employers, 
was  never  wanting  for  a  position,  and  was  prompt, 
accurate,  talented,  and  very  efficient;  but  the  min- 
ute he  was  out  of  business — that  was  all  gone.  He 
always  approached  a  friend  with  a  merry  twinkle 
in  his  eye  and  an  expression  which  said:  'Come  on, 
boys,  we  are  going  to  ha\e  a  lot  of  fun,'  and  we 
usually  did. 

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"  If  W.  S.  p.  at  this  time  had  any  ambitions  as  a 
writer,  he  never  mentioned  it  to  me.  1  do  not  recall 
that  he  was  fond  of  reading.  One  day  1  quoted 
some  lines  to  him  from  a  poem  by  John  Alex- 
ander Smith.  He  made  inquiry  about  the  author, 
borrowed  the  book,  and  committed  to  memory  a 
great  many  passages  from  it,  but  I  do  not  recall 
e\'er  having  known  him  to  read  any  other  book. 
1  asked  him  one  day  why  he  never  read  fiction. 
His  reply  was:  'That  it  was  all  tame  compared 
with  the  romance  in  his  own  life,' — which  was 
really  true." 

But  the  lure  of  the  pen  was  getting  too  strong  for 
Will  Porter  to  resist.  Life  as  a  teller  in  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Austin  was  too  routine  not  to  be 
relieved  by  some  outlet  for  his  love  of  fun  and  for 
his  creative  literary  instinct.  -An  opportunity 
opened  to  buy  a  printing  outfit,  and  he  seized  it 
and  used  it  for  a  yeai'  to  issue  the  Rolling  Stone,  a 
weekly  paper  that  suggested  even  then  his  later 
method  as  a  humorist  and  as  a  photographic  por- 
trayer  of  odd  types  of  humanity, 

111 — The    New    York    D.^YS^RICH.\RD 
Duffy's  Narkative 

His  coming  to  New  York,  with  the  resolution  "to 
write  for  bread,"  as  he  said  once  in  a  mood  of  acrid 
humor,  was  dramatic,  as  is  a  whisper  compared  to  a 
subdued  tumult  of  \oices.  I  believe  1  am  correct 
in  saying  that  outside  his  immediate  family  few 
were  aware  that  O.  Henry  was  entering  this  "nine- 
day  town"  except  Oilman  Hall,  my  associate  on 
Ainslee's  Magazine,  the  publishers,  Messrs.  Street 
and  Smith,  and  myself.     For  some  time  we  had 

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been  buying  stories  from  him,  written  in  his  perfect 
Spencerian  copperplate  hand  that  was  to  become 
familiar  to  so  many  editors.  Only  then  he  wrote 
always  with  a  pen  on  white  paper,  whereas  once  he 
was  established  in  New  York  he  used  a  lead  pencil 
sharpened  to  a  needle's  point  on  one  of  the  yellow 
pads  that  were  always  to  be  seen  on  his  table.  The 
stories  he  published  at  this  period  were  laid  either 
in  the  Southwest  or  in  Central  .America,  and  those 
of  the  latter  countries  form  the  bulk  of  his  first 
issued  volume,  "Cabbages  and  Kings."  It  was 
because  we  were  sure  of  him  as  a  writer  that  our  pub- 
lishers willingly  advanced  the  cheque  that  brought 
him  to  New  York  and  assured  him  a  short  breathing 
spell  to  look  round  and  settle.  .Also,  it  was  be- 
cause O.  Henry  wanted  to  come.  You  could  always 
make  him  do  anything  he  wanted  to  do,  as  he  had  a 
way  of  saying,  if  you  were  coaxing  him  into  an 
invitation  he  had  no  intention  of  pursuing  into 
effect. 

It  was  getting  late  on  a  fine  spring  afternoon  down 
at  Duane  and  William  streets  when  he  came  to 
meet  us.  From  the  outer  gate  the  boy  presented 
a  card  bearing  the  name  William  Sydney  Porter. 
I  don't  remember  just  when  we  found  out  that  "O. 
Henry"  was  merely  a  pen-name;  but  think  it  was 
during  the  correspondence  arranging  that  he  come 
to  New  York.  I  do  remember,  however,  that  when 
we  were  preparing  our  yearly  prospectus,  we  had 
written  to  him,  asking  that  he  tell  us  what  the  initial 
O.  stood  for,  as  we  wished  to  use  his  photograph 
and  preferred  to  have  his  name  in  full.  It  was  the 
custom  and  would  make  his  name  stick  faster  in  the 
minds  of  readers.  With  a  courteous  flourish  of 
iippreciation  at  the  honor  we  were  offering  him  in 

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making  him  known  lo  the  world,  he  sent  us  "Ohv- 
ler,"  and  so  he  appeared  as  Olivier  Henry  in  the 
first  publishers'  announcement  in  which  his  stories 
were  heralded.  Later  he  confided  to  us.  smiling, 
what  a  lot  of  fun  he  had  had  in  picking  out  a  first 
name  of  sufficient  ad\ertising  elTectiveness  that 
began  with  O. 

As  happens  in  these  matters,  whatever  mind 
picture  Oilman  Hall  or  I  had  formed  of  him  from 
his  letters,  his  handwriting,  his  stories,  vanished 
before  the  impression  of  the  actual  man.  He  wore  a 
dark  suit  of  clothes,  I  recall,  and  a  four-in-hand 
tie  of  bright  color.  He  carried  a  black  derby, 
high-crowned,  and  walked  with  a  springy,  noiseless 
step.  To  meet  him  for  the  first  time  you  felt  his 
most  notable  quality  to  be  reticence,  not  a  reticence 
of  social  timidity,  but  a  reticence  of  deliberateness. 
If  you  also  were  observing,  you  would  soon  under- 
stand that  his  reticence  proceeded  from  the  fact 
that  civilly  yet  masterfully  he  was  taking  in  every 
Item  of  the  "you"  being  presented  lo  him  to  the 
accompaniment  of  convention's  phrases  and  ideas 
together  with  the  "you"  behind  this  presenta- 
tion. It  was  because  he  was  able  thus  to  assemble 
and  sift  all  the  multifarious  elements  of  a  person- 
ality with  sleight-of-hand  swiftness  that  you  find 
him  characterizing  a  person  or  a  neighborhood  in  a 
sentence  or  two:  and  once  I  heard  him  characterize 
a  list  of  editors  he  knew  each  in  a  phrase. 

On  his  first  afternoon  in  New  York  we  took  him 
on  our  usual  walk  uptown  from  Duane  Street  to 
about  Madison  Square,  ihat  was  a  long  walk  for 
O.  Henry,  as  any  who  knew  him  may  witness. 
Another  long  one  was  when  he  walked  about  a 
mile  over  a  fairly  high  hill  with  me  on  zigzag  path 

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through  autumn  woods.  I  showed  him  plains  below 
us  and  hills  stretching  away  so  far  and  blue  that 
they  looked  like  the  illimitable  sea  from  the  deck  of 
an  ocean  liner.  But  it  was  not  until  we  approached 
the  station  from  which  we  were  to  take  the  train 
back  to  New  York  that  he  showed  the  least  sign 
of  animation.  "What's  the  matter  Bill?"  I  asked. 
"I  thought  you'd  like  to  see  some  real  country." 
His  answer  was:  "  Kunn'l,  how  kin  you  expeck 
me  to  appreciate  the  glories  of  nature  when  you 
walk  me  over  a  mounting  like  that  an'  I  got  new 
shoes  on?"  Then  he  stood  on  one  foot  and  on  the 
other,  caressing  each  aching  member  for  a  second 
or  two,  and  smiled  with  bashful  knowingness  so 
like  him. 

It  was  when  he  li\ed  in  West  twenty-fourth 
Street  that  Robert  H.  Davis,  then  of  the  staff  of 
the  New  York  World,  ran  him  to  cover,  as  it  were, 
and  concluded  a  contract  with  him  to  furnish  one 
stor\-  a  week,  for  a  year,  at  a  fixed  salary.  It  was  a 
gigantic  task  to  face,  and  I  have  heard  of  no  other 
writer  who  put  the  same  quality  of  effort  and  ma- 
terial in  his  work  able  to  produce  one  story  every 
seven  days  for  fifty-two  successive  weeks.  The 
contract  was  renewed,  I  believe,  and  all  during 
this  time  O.  Henry  was  selling  stories  to  magazines 
as  well.  His  total  of  stories  amount  to  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty-one,  and  when  it  is  considered  that 
they  were  written  in  about  eight  years,  one  may 
give  him  a  good  mark  for  industry,  especially  as  he 
made  no  professional  vaunt  about  "loving  his 
work."  Once,  when  dispirited,  he  said  that  almost 
any  other  way  of  earning  a  living  was  less  of  a  toil 
than  writing.  The  mood  is  common  to  writers,  but 
not  so  common  as  to  happen  to  a  man  who  practi- 

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callv  had  editors  or  agents  of  editors  sitting  on  his 
doorstep  requesting  copy. 

He  was  a  man  you  could  sit  with  a  long  while  and 
feel  no  necessity  for  talking;  but  ever  so  often  a 
passerby  would  evoke  a  remark  from  him  that  con- 
\erted  an  iota  of  humanity  into  the  embryo  of  a 
story.  Although  he  spoke  hardly  ever  to  any  one 
in  the  house  except  the  people  who  managed  it, 
he  had  the  lodgers  all  ticketed  in  his  mind.  He  was 
friendly  but  distant  with  persons  of  the  neighbor- 
hood he  was  bound  to  meet  regularly,  because  he 
lived  so  long  there,  and  I  have  often  thought  he 
must  have  persisted  as  a  mysterious  man  to  them 
simply  because  he  was  so  far  from  being  com- 
municative. 


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INDEX 

Being  a  Guide  to  0.  Henry's  Books 


Abdication,  the  Higher 
5«^.HeartoftheWest 

Ability,   From   Each  According 
TO  His 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

About  Town,  iMan 

See:  Four  Millfon,  The 

Accolade,  the  Guardian  of  the 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

According  to  His  Ability,  From 
Each 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

AccoRCiNG  to  Their  Lights 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp   The 

Adjustment  of  Nature,  An 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Admiral,  The 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Adventures   of   Shamrock 
JoLNES,  The 
5^^.-  Sixes  andSevens 

After  Twenty  Years 

See:  Four  Million,  The 


A  La  Carte,  Cupid 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

A  La  Carte,  Springtime 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Answers,  Queries  and 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Anthem,  The  Cop  and  the 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Aphasia,  A  Ramble  in 
See:  Strictly  Business 

Apology,  An 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Apple,  The  Sphinx 

See:  Heart  of  the  \Ve^t 

Arabia,  A  Night  in  New 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Arabian     Night,     A      Madison 
Square 
5^^;  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Arcadia,  Transienis  in 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Archer,  Mammon  and  ihe 
See:  Four  Million  The 

Aristocracy  Versus  Hash 

See-  Rolling  Stones 


24  = 


Art  and  the  Bronco 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Art,  Conscience  in 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Arts,  Masters  of 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Assessor  of  Success,  The 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

At  Arms  with  Morpheus 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Atavism    of    John    Tom    Little 
Bear,  The 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Atwood,  Johnny 

See:  Note  under  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Auto  Waits,  While  the 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

B 

Babes  in  the  Jungle 
See:  Strictly  Business 

Badge    of    Policeman    O'RooN; 
The 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Bagdad,  A  Bird  of 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Bargainer,  A  Blackjack 

See:  Whirligigs 

Best  Seller 
See:  Options 

Between  Rounds 

See:  Four  iMillion,  The 

Bexar  Script,  No.  2692 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Billy.  The  Emancipation  of 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Bird  OF  Bagdad,  A 
See:  Strictly  Business 


Black  Bill,  The  Hiding  of 
See:  Options 

Black  Eagle,  The  Passing  of 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Blackjack  Bargainer,  A 

See:  Whirligigs 

Blend,  The  Lost 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Blind  Man's  Holiday 

See:  Whirligigs 

Bohemia,  A  Philistine  in 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Bohemia,  Extradited  from 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Bo-Peep      of      the      Ranches, 
Madame 

See:  Whirligigs 

Bottle,  The  Lotus  and  the 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Brickdust  Row 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Brief  Debut  of  Tildy,  The 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Broadway,  Innocents  of 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Broker,  The  Romance  of  a  Busy 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Bronco,  Art  and  the 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 
Burglar,  Tommy's 

See:  Whirligigs 

Business,  Strictly — Short 

Stories 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Buried  Treasure 
See:  Options 


246 


BuRNEY,      Transformation     of 
Martin 

5^;;  Sixes  and  Sevens 


Dicky,  D 

Kou^e  et  Noir,  D 

Two  Kecalls,  A 

The  Vitagraphoscope,  A-C 


Blsy  Brokliv.   I  hi.  Romance   Cabby's  Seat,  From  the 


OF  a 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Buyer  from  Cactus  City,  'I'me 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

liY  Courier 

See:  Four  Million,  The 


Caballero's  Way,  The 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Cabbages  and  Kings 

The  stories  in  this  volume,  though 
apparently  disconnected  chapters, 
fall  into  four  main  groups,  with  the 
exception  of  one  independent  tale, 
"The  Lptus  and  the  Bottle."  Rut 
the  stories  all  have  a  loose  inter- 
relation owing  to  the  fact  that 
Coralio  in  Central  America  is 
their  common  stage,  and  that 
the  dramatis  person^e,  generally 
speaking,  is  the  same  throughout. 
For  the  advantage  of  readers  who 
wish  to  get  the  chapters  of  the  va- 
rious stories  in  their  natural  order 
the  groups  are  here  marked  alpha- 
betically. For  instance,  all  the  chap- 
ters centring  about  Frank  Good- 
win are  grouped  with  "  I  he  Money 
.Maze"  as  A.  Those  about  Johnny 
Atwood  with  "Cupid's  Exile  Num- 
ber Two"  as  B.  Those  about  Keogh 
and  Clancy  with  "The  Phonograph 
and  the  Graft"  as  C.  Those  about 
Dicky  as  D  and  those  about  "  I  he 
.Admiral"  as  E. 

Contents: 

The  Proem:     By  the  (Carpenter,  .\ 

"  Fox-in-the- .Morning,"  A 

The  Lotus  and  the  Bottle 

Smith,  A 

Caupht.  A 

Cupid's  Exile  Number  Two,  B 

The    Phonograph   and    the   (iraft   C, 

Money  .Maze,  A 

The  Admiral,  E 

The  Flag  Paramount,  F 

The  Shamrock  and  the  Palm,  C 

The  Remnants  of  the  Code,  .A 

Shoes,  B 

Ships,  B 

Masters  of  Arts,  ( . 


See:  Four  .Million,  The 

Cactus  City,  Thi:  Buyer  from 

See:  Trimmed,  Lamp,  The 

Cad,  The  Cai.ipii  and  the 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Cafe,  A  Cosmopolite  in  a 

See:  Four  .Million,  The 

Caliph  and  the  Cad,  The 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Caliph,  Cupid,  and  the  Clock, 
The 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Calliope,  The  Reformation  of 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Call  Loan, A 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Call  of  the  Tame,  The 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Call,  The  Cl.\rion 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Call,  The  Friendly 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Calloway's  Code 

See:  Whirligigs 

Campfire  Light,  New  York  by 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Candy   Man,   Nemesis   and  the 

See:  Voice  of  the  Cit>',  The 

Carpenter,  The  Proem:    By  the 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Cartoons  byO.  Henry 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Case,  A  Departmental 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


247 


Caught 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Celebrate,  The  Day  We 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Central  America,  Stories  of 
See:  Locality 

Chair  of    Philanthromathema- 
Tics,  The 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Champion  of  the  Weather,  The 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Chance,  The  Ghost  of  a 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Chaparral  Christimas  Gift,  A 

See:  Yv'hirligigs 

Chaparral  Prince,  A 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Charleroi,  The  Renaissance  at 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Cherchez  La  Femme 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Chord,  The  Missing 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Christmas  by  Injunction 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Christmas  Gift,  A  Chaparral 

See:  Whirligigs 

Christmas  Stocking,  Whistling 
Dick's 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


Christmas       Story, 
finished 
See:  Rolling  Stones 


An       Un- 


church     with      an      Overshot 
Wheel,  The 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Circle,  Sisters  of  the  Gcuden 
See:  Four  Million,  The 


Circle,  Squaring  the 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Cities,  The  Pride  of  the 
.SV^;  Sixes  and  Sevens 

City  of  Dreadful  Night,  The 
See:  Voice  of  the  Cit_\-,  The 

City,  The  Defeat  of  the 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

City,  The  Voice  of  the 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Clancy,  Keogh  and 

.S^^;  Note  under  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Clarion  Call,  The 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Clock,  The  Caliph,  Cupid  and 

the 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Code,  Calloway's 
See:  Whirligigs 

Code,    The    Remnants    of    the 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Color,  A  Little  Local 

See:  Whirligigs 

Comedy  in  Rubber,  A 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Coming-out  of  Maggie,  The 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Company  99,  The  Foreign  Pol- 
icy of 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Complete    Life    of    John    Hop- 
kins, The 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Compliments  of  the  Season 
See:  Strictly  Business 


Coney,  The  Greater 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 


248 


Conscience  in  Art 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Cop  and  the  Anthem,  The 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Cosmopolite  in  a  Cafe,  A 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Count  and  the  Wedding  Guest, 
The 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Country  of  Elusion,  The 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Courier,  By 

Sfe:  Four  Million,  The 

Crosses,  Hearts  and 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Cupid  A  La  Carte 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Cupid,  and  the  Clock,  Caiiph, 

Se::  Four  Million,  The 

Cupid's  Exile  Number  Two 
Se.':  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Curse,  LordOakhurst's 

Sjc:  Rolling  Stones 

D 

Day  Resurgent,  The 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Day  We  Celebrate,  The 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Dhbut  of  Tildy,  The  Brief 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Di.cFivER,  A  Double-Dyed 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Defeat  of  the  City,  The 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

DhMAND,  Supply  and 
See:  Options 


Departmental  Case,  A 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Destiny,  Roads  of 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Diamond  OF  Kali,  I'he 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Dick's     Christmas     Stocking, 
Whistling 

See:  F^oads  of  Destiny 

Dicky 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Dinner  At ,  A 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Discounters    of     Money,    The 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

'■  Dixie,  The  Rose  of" 
See:  Options 

Dogman,  Ulysses  and  the 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Dollars,  One  Thousand 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Dollar's  Worth,  One 
Sec  Whirligigs 

Doom,  The  Smocks  of 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 


Doom,      Fracked     to — or 
Mystery    of     the     Kue 
Peychaud 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Door  of  Unre:t,  The 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Door,  The  Green 
See:  Four  A'iHion,  The 

Door,  The  World  and  the 
See:  Whirligigs 

Double-Dyed  Decf-.iver,  A 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


THE 

De 


249 


Dougherty's  Eye-opener 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Dreadful  Night,  The  City  of 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Dream,  A  Midsummer  Knight's 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Dream,  The 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Dress  Parade,  Lost  on 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Dress,  The  Purple 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Dry  Valley  Johnson,   The    In- 
dian Summer  of 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Duel,  The 

See  Strictly  Business 

Duplicity  of  Hargraves,  The 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 


Each  According  to  His  Ability, 
From 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 
Eagle,   The    Passing   of    Black 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


East  Side  Tragedy,  An: 
Guilty  Party" 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 


The 


Easter  of  the  Soul,  The 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Elevation,  A  Matter  of  Mean 

See:  Whirligigs 

Elsie  in  New  York 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Elusion,  The  Country  of 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Emancipation  of  Billy,  The  ' 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


Enchanted  Kiss,  The 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Enchanted  Profile,  The 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Error,  A  Technical 

See:  Whirligigs 

Ethics  of  Pig,  The 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Exact  Science  of  Matrimony, 
The 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Exile  Number  Two,  Cupid's 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Extradited  from  Bohemia 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Eye-opener,  Dougherty's 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 


Failure,  The  Hypotheses  of 
See:  \\hirligigs 

Feel  Your  Pulse,  Let  Me 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Femme,  Cherchez  La 

See:  Roads  of  Destinv 


Ferry    of    Unfulfilment, 
See:     Trimmed  Lamp,  The 


The 


Fickle  Fortune,  or  How  Gladys 
Hustled 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Fifth  Wheel,  The 

See:  Strictly  Business 
Fire,  The  Plutonian 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Flag  Paramount,  The 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Fog  in  Santone,  A 

See:  Rolling  Stones 


230 


FooL-KiLLER,  The 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 
Foreign  Policy  of  Comi'any  99. 

1  HE 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 


Fortune,        Fickle, 
Gladys  Hustled 

See:  Rolling  Stones 


OR 


How 


Four      Million,       I"he  —  Short 
Stories 

Conlenls: 

Tobin's  Palm 

The  Gift  of  the  Magi 

A  Cosmopolite  in  a  Cafe 

Between  Rounds 

The  Skylight  Room 

A  Service  of  Love 

The  Coming-Out  of  Maggie 

Man  About  1  own 

The  Cop  and  the  Anthem 

An  Adjustment  of  Nature 

Memoirs  of  a  bellow  Dog 

The  Love-Philtre  of  Ike_\'  Sclioenstein 

Mammon  and  the  Archer 

Springtime  a  la  Carte 

The  Green  Door 

From  the  Cabby's  Seat 

An  Unfinished  Story 

The  Caliph,  Cupid  and  the  Clock 

Sisters  of  the  Golden  Circle 

The  Romance  of  a  Busy  Broker 

After  Twenty  Years 

Lost  on  Dress  Parade 

B\  Courier 

The  Furnished  Room 

The  Brief  Debut  of  Tildy 

Four  Roses,  The — Verse 

See:    Roses,    Ruses   and    Romance   in 
"Voice  of  the  City" 

Fourth  in  Salvador,  The 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

"  Fox-in-the-Morning" 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Friend,  Telemachus 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Friendly  Call,  The 
See:  Rolling  Stonas 

Friends  in  San  Rosario 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


From    Each    According    to    His 
Ability 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

From  the  Cabby's  Seat 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

"Fruit,   Little  Si^eck   in    (jar- 
nered" 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Furnished  Room,  The 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Fury,  Sound  and — Dialogue 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

G 


Fruit,        Lutle 


"  Garnered 
Speck  in" 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Gentle    Grafter,    The    (Illus- 
trated)— Short  Stories 

Contents: 

Tlie  Octopus  Marooned 
JetT  Peters  as  a  Personal  Magnet 
Modern  Rural  Sports 
The  Chair  of  Philanthromathematics 
The  Hand  That  Riles  the  World 
The  Exact  Science  of  Matrimony 
A  Midsummer  Masquerade 
Sheaiing  the  Wolf 
Innocents  of  Broadway 
(Conscience  in  Art 
The  Man  Higher  Up 
A  Tempered  Wind 
Hostages  to  Momus 
The  Ethics  of  Pig 

Gentlemen,    I'wo  Thanksgiving 
Day 

See:  Tritnmed  Lamp,  The 

Georgia's  Ruling 
See:  Whirligigs 

Ghost  of  a  C:l\nci.,  The 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Gift  of  the  Magi,  The 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

"Girl" 

See:  Whirligigs 


2Si 


Girl  and  the  Graft,  The 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Girl  a:;d  the  Hadit,  The 
See:  Strictly  Business 

Gladys      Hustled,      How,      or 
Fickle  Fortui,'E 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Gold  That  Glittered,  The 
See:  Strictly  Business 

Golden  Circle,  Sisters  of  the 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Goodwin,  Frank 

See:  Note  under  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Graft,  The  Girl  and  the 

See:  Strictly  Business 
Graft,    The     Phonograi'H    and 

THE 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Grafter,  The  Gentle 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Greater  Coney,  The 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Green  Door,  The 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Guardian  of  the  Accolade,  The 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Guest,    The    Count    and    the 
Wedding 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

"Guilty  Party" — An  East  Side 
Tragedy,  Ti:e 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp 

H 

Habit,  The  girl  and  the 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Halberdier     of     the      Little 
Rheinschloss,  The 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


Hand  That   Riles   the   World, 
The 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

lT\ND3oox  OF  Hymen,  The 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Har3inger,  The 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Hargraves,    The    Duplicity    of 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Harlem  Tragedy,  A 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Hash,  Aristocracy  Versus 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Haughty,  Seats  of  the 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Hayes,  Jimmie — and  Muriel 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

He  Also  Serves 

See:  Options 

Head-Hunter,  The 

See:  Options 

Heart     of     the     West — Short 
Stories 

Contents: 

Hearts  and  Crosses 

The  Ransom  of  Mack 

Telemachus,  Friend 

The  Handbook  of  Hymen 

The  Pimienta  Pancakes 

Seats  of  the  Haughty 

Hygeia  at  the  Solito 

An  Afternoon  Miracle 

The  Hi,:;her  Abdication 

(".upid  a  la  Carte 

The  Caballcro's  Way 

The  Sphinx  Apple 

The  Alissing  Chord 

A  Call  Loan 

The  Princess  and  the  Puma 

The   Indian   Summer  of   Dry   Valley 

Johnson 
(Christmas  by  Injunction 
A  Chapirral  Prince 
The  Reformation  of  Calliope 


252 


HiARTb  AND  Crosses 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

UhLIMNG  THE  OtHER  FeLLOW 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Hiding  OF  Black  Bill.  The 

See:  Options 

Highball,   The    RuhaIyai    of   / 
Scotch 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The    ' 

Hk.hhr  Abdication,  The 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Higher  Pragmatism,  The 
-SVt-.  Options 

Higher  Up,  The  Lad'i 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Higher  Up,  The  Man 
.SV^;  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Him  \\  ho  Waits,  To 

See:  Options 

1  111,  A  Sacrifice 

See:     Whirligigs 

Holding  up  a  Train 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Holiday,  Blind  Mans 
See:  Whirligigs 

Homes,    Suite — and   Their    Ro- 
mance 

See:  Whirligigs 


Hygeia  at  the  Solito 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Hymen,  I"he  Handbook  of 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Hypotheses  of  Failure,  The 

See:  Whirligigs 

I 

'■  I  Go  TO  Seek  on  Many  Road^  ' 
— Verse — Heading  of  Roads 
of  Destiny 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Ikey  Schoenstein,  The  Love 
Philtre  of 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Indian  Summer  of  Dry  \'allly 
Johnson,  The 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Inc.redien  I,   I  hh  Third 
See:  Options 

Injunction,  Christmas  by 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Innocents  of  Broadway 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Introduction  to  Rolling 
Stones,  by  H.  P.  Steger 

See:  Rolling  Stones 


Hopkins,  The  Complete  Life  of      j^kf     Peters     as     a     Personal 


John 
See:  Voice  ©f  the  City.  The 

Hostages  to  Mom  us 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 
Hound,  The  Theory  and  ihi: 

See:  Whirligigs 


low     Gladys     Husiijd, 
'■  Fickle  Fortune" 

See:  Rolling  Stones 


OR 


Magnet 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Jeff  Peters  Stories 

The   Contents   of    Tie   Gentle   Gr.ijter 

and  also 
Cupid   ^  la   Carte   (in   Heart    of   the 

West) 
The  Atavism  of  John  Tom  Little  Bear 

(in  Rolling  Stones) 

Jimmie  Hayes  and  Muriel 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 


253 


John    Hopkins,    The    Complhte 
Life  of 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

John    Tom    Little    Bear,    The 
Atavism  of 

See:  Rolling  Stones  * 

Johnny  Atwood 

See:  Note  under  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Johnson,  The  Indian  Summer  of 
Dry  Valley 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

June,  October  and 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Jungle,  Babes  in  the 
See:  Strictly  Business 

K 

Kali,  The  Diamond  of 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Keogh  and  Clancy 

See:  Note  under  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Kin,  Makes  the  Whole  World 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Kings,  Cabbages  and 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Knight's  Dream,  A  Midsummer 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 


Lady  Higher  Up,  The 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Lamp,  The  Trimmed 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Last  Leaf,  The 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Last  of  the  Troubadours,  The 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Law  and  Order 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 


"Lazy  Shepherds,  See  Your 
Lambkins" — David's  Verse  in 
Roads  of  Destiny 

See:  Roads  of  Destin\ 

Leaf,  The  Last 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Let  Me  Feel  Your  Pulse 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Also  issued  separately  as  a  small  il- 
lustrated book.  This  story  is  largel>' 
based  upon  O.  Henry's  own  ill- 
fated  search  for  health. 

Letters  from  O.  Henry 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Two  to  Oilman  Hall 

One  to  Mrs.  Hall,  a  friend  in  North 

Carolina 
Three  to  Dr.  W.  P.  Beall 
Four  to  David  Harreil 
Parable  Letter 

Two  to  his  Daughter  Margaret 
To  J.  O.  H.  Cosgrave 
One  to  "Col.  Griffith" 
Four  to  Al.  Jennings 
Two  to  H.  P.  Steger 

LicKPENNY  Lover,  A 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Life  of  John  Hopkins,  The 
Complete 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 
Life,  The  Whirligjg  of 

See:  Whirligigs 

Lights,  According  to  Their 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Little  Bear,  The  Atavis.m  of 
John  Tom 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Little  Local  Color,  A 

See:  Whirligigs 

"Little  Speck  in  Garnered 
Fruit" 

See:  Voice  of  the  C~ity,  The 

Loan,  A  Call 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 


2  54 


Loaves,  Whches' 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Local  Color,  A  Little 

See:  Whirligigs 

Locality — 

A  geographical  arrangement 
of  practically  all  of  the  stories 
in  the  twelve  volumes.  Refer- 
ence to  the  hook  in  which  the 
tale  appears  is  given  after  each 
title  or  group  of  titles. 

Central  America 


The    Head-Hunter 


{In     "Options") 


Phoebe 

The  Fourth  in  Salvador 

Two  Renegades 

{In  "Roads  of  Destiny") 

The  Day  We  Celebrate 

{In   "Sixes   and   Sevens") 

England 

Lord  Oakhurst's  Curse 

{In    "Rolling    Stones") 

France 

Roads  of  Destiny 

{In  "Roads  of  Destiny") 

Tracked  to  Doom 

(/«  "Rolling  Stones") 

Mexico 

Ht  Also  Serves 

(/«   "Options") 

Kew  York 
'The  Four  Million"  (Whole  Volume) 

Innocents  of  Broadway 
A  Tempered  Wind 

{In  "  The  Gentle  Grafter") 

The  Third  Ingredient 
Schools  and  Schools 
Thimble.  Thimble 
To  Him  Who  Waits 
No  Story 

The  Higher  Pragmatism 
Rus  in  Lrbe 

{In     "Options") 

The  Discounters  of  Money 
The  Enchanted  Profile 

{In  "Roads  of  Dsitiny") 


The  .Marionettes 

A  Dinner  at 

An  L  nfmished  Christmas  Story 
1  he  Unprofitable  Servant 

{In    "Rolling    Stones"^, 

The  Sleuths 

\\  ilclics'  Loaves 

1  he  Pride  of  the  Cities 

Llvsses  and  the  Dognian 

The  (Champion  of  the  \\  eather 

Makes  the  W  hole  World  Km 

At  Arms  with  .Morpheus 

The  (ihost  of  a  Chance 

Let  .Me  Feel  V'our  Pulse 

The  Adventures  With  Shamrock  Jolncs 

The  Lady  Higher  L'p 

1  he  Creatcr  ('oney 

Transformation  of  Martin  Burney 

The  ("aliph  and  the  Cad 

The  Diamond  of  Kali 

{In   "Sixes   and   Sevens") 

"Strictly  Business."  (All  the  stories  in 
this  volume,  except  "A  Municipal 
Report,"  for  which  see  The  South 
under  Tennessee) 

"The  Trimmed  Lamp."  (Whole  Vol- 
ume) 

"The  Voice  of  the  City."  (Whole  vol- 
ume) 

Calloway's  Code 

"Girl" 

The  Marry  Month  of  May 

Sociology  in  Serge  and  Straw 

Suite  Homes  and  1  heir  Romance 

A  Sacrifice  Hit 

The  Song  and  the  Sergeant 

A  Newspaper  Story 

Tommy's  Burglar 

A  Little  Local  Color 

{In   "Whirligigs") 


Pennsylvania 
Conscience  in  Art 


(Pittsburgh) 
{In    "  Wbirligigs"'j 


South  America 

"Cabbages  and  Kings."    (Whole  vol- 
ume) 

The  World  and  the  Door 
The  Theory  and  the  Hound 
A  .Matter  of  Mean  Llevation 
Supply  and  Demand 

{In     "Options") 

Next  to  Reading  Matter 
A  Double-D\ed  Deceiver 
On  Behalf  of  the  Management 

{In  "Roads  of  Destiny") 

A  Ruler  of  .Men 
Helping  the  Other  Fellow 

{In    "Rolling    Stones") 


25 


:? 


The  South — 

Alabama 
The  Ransom  of  Red  Chief 

{In    "  iVbirligigs") 

Georgia 

Hostages  to  Momus 

{In  "  The  Gentle  Grafter") 

"The  Rose  of  Dixie" 

{In  "Options") 

Kentucky 

A  Blackjack  Bargainer 

(/n  "IVhirligigs") 

Shearing  the  Wolf 
The  Ethics  of  Pig 

{_In  "The  Gentle  Grafter") 

Louisiana 

The  Renaissance  at  Charleroi 
Whistling  Dick's  Christmas  Stocking 
Cherchez  la  Femme 

{In  'Roads  of  Destiny") 

Blind  Man's  Holiday 

{In    "  Whirligigs"') 

Tennessee 

A  Midsummer  Masquerade 

{In  "  The  Gentle  Grafter") 

October  and  June 

(In  "Sixes  and  Sevens") 

The  Whirligig  of  Life 

{In    "  Whirligigs") 


Virginia 
Best  Seller 

{In     "Options") 

Washington 
The  Hand  that  Riles  the  World 

{In   "  The  Gentle  Grafter") 

A  Snapshot  at  the  President 

{In  "Rolling  Stones") 

The  Duplicity  of  Hargraves 

{In  "Sixes  and  Sevens") 

Indefinite 
The  Emancipation  of  Billy 
The  Guardian  of  the  Accolade 
'  {In  "Roads  of  Destiny") 

The  Church  With  an  Overshot  Wheel 
1  he  Door  of  Unrest 

{In  "Sixes  and  Sevens") 


The  West — 

/Iri'ona 
Christmas  by  Injunction 

{In  "Heart  of  the  West") 

The  Roads  We  Take 

{In  "Whirligigs") 

Arkansas 

Jeff  Peters  as  a  Personal  Magnet 
The  Man  Higher  Up 

{In  "  The  Gentle  Grafter") 

A  Retrieved  Reformation 

{In  "Roads  of  Destiny") 

Colorado 
The  Ransom  of  Mack 

{In  "  The  Heart  of  the  West") 

The  Friendly  Call 

("/«  Rolling  Stones") 

Illinois 

The  Exact  Science  of  Matrimony 

{In  "  The  Gentle  Grafter") 

Indiana 
Modern  Rural  Sports 

{In  "  The  Gentle  Grafter") 

Indian  Territory 

New  York  by  Campfire  Light 

{In  "Sixes  and  Sevens") 

A  Technical  Error 

{In    "Whirligigs") 

Kansas 

The  Atavism  of  John  Tom  Little  Bear 
{In    "Rolling    Stones") 

Montana 

The  Handbook  of  Hymen 

{In  "  The  Heart  of  the  West") 

New  Mexico 

Telemachus  Friend 

{In  "Heart  of  the  West") 

Ohio 

The  Halberdier  of  the  Little  Rhcin- 
schloss      {In  "Roads  of  Destiny  "i 

Oklahoma 

Cupid  i  la  Carte 

{In  "Heart  of  the  West") 

I  loldingUp  a  Train 

{In  "Sixes  and  Sevens") 


256 


Texas 
The  Octopus  Marooned 

Hearts  and  C.rosses 

The  Pimienta  F^ancakes 

Seats  of  the  Haughty 

Hygeia  at  the  Solito 

An  Afternoon  Miracle 

The  Higher  Abdication 

The  Clahallero's  Way 

The  Sphinx  Apple 

The  Missing  Chord 

A  Call  Loan 

The  Princess  and  the  Puma 

The   Indian   Summer  of   Dry   N'alley 

Johnson 
A  Chaparral  Prince 
The  Reformation  of  Calliope 

(/m  "Heart  of  the  H'est") 

The  Hiding'of  Black  Bill 
Buried  1  reasure 
The  Moment  of  Victory 
A  Poor  Rule 

("In  Options") 

Art  and  the  Broncos 
The  Passing  of  Black  Eagle 
Friends  in  San  Rosario 
The  Enchanted  Kiss 
A  Departmental  Case 
The  Lonesome  Road 

(In  "Roads  oj  Destiny") 

The  Marquis  and  Miss  Sally 

A  Fog  in  Santone 

Tictocq 

Aristocracy  versus  Hash 

A  Strange  Story 

Fickle  Fortune,  or  How  Gladys  Hustled 

An  Apolog\ 

Bexar  Script  No.  2692 

{In  "Rolling  Stones" \ 

The  Last  of  the  Troubadours 
Jimmie  Hayes  and  Muriel 
Law  and  Order 

(In  "Sixes  and  Sevens" > 
One  Dollar's  Worth 
A  Chaparral  Christmas  Gift 
Madame  Bo-Peep  of  the  Ranches 
Georgia's  Ruling 

(In    "  ^Vhirligigs") 

Lonesome  Road,  The 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Lord  Oakhurst's  Curse 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Lost  Blend,  The 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Lost  ON  Dress  Parade 

See:  Four  Million,  The 


Lotus  in  the  Bottle,  The 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Love,  A  Service  of 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Love-philtre   or    I  key   Schoen- 
sthin.  The 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Lover,  A  Lickpenny 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

M 

Mack,  The  Ransom  of 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Madame       Bo-peep       of       the 
Ranches 

See:  Whirligigs 

Madison        Square        Arabian 
Night,  A 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Maggie,  The  Coming-out  of 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Magi,  The  Gift  of  the 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Magnet,  Jeff  Peters  as  a  Per- 
sonal 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

AL\KES  THE  Whole  \\  orld  Kin 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

AL\KiNG  OF  A  New  Yorker,  Thk 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Mammon  and  the  Archer 

See:  Four  Million,  The 
Man  About  I'own 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Man  Higher  Up,  The 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Management,  On  Behalf  of  the 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Marionettes,  The 
See:  Rolling  Stones 


257 


Marooned,  The  Octopus 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Marquis   and   Miss   Sally,  The 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Marry    Month    of    May,    The 

See:  Whirligigs 

Martin    Burney,    Transforma- 
tion OF 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Masquerade,  A  Midsummer 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Masters  of  Arts 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Matrimony,  The  Exact  Science 

OF 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Matter  of  Mean  Elevation,  A 

See:  Whirligigs 

May,  The  Marry  Month  of 

See:  Whirligigs 

Maze,  Money 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Mean  Elevation,  A  Matter  of 

See:  Whirligigs 

Memento,  The 

See:  Voice  of  the  Cit}',  The 

Memoirs  of  a  Yellow  Dog 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Midsummer  Knight's  Dream,  A 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Midsummer  Masquerade,  A 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Mignot,  Unpublished  Poems  of 
David 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny,  Chap.  I. 

Million,  The  Four 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Miracle,  An  Aftliinoon 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 


Miss  Sally,  The   Marquis  and 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Missing  Chord,  The 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Modern  Rural  Sports 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Moment  of  Victory,  The 

See:  Options 

MoMus,  Hostages  to 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Money  Maze 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Money,    The     Discounters    of 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Month    of    May,    The    Marry 

See:  Whirligigs 

Morning,  Fox  in  the 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Morpheus,  At  Arms  with 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Municipal  Report,  A 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Muriel,  Jimmie  Hayes  and 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Mystery  of  the  Rue  De  Pey- 
chaud.  The,  or  Tracked  to 
Doom 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

N 
Nature,  An  Adjustment  of 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Nemesis  and  the  Candy  Man 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

New  Arabia,  A  Night  in 
See:  Strictly  Business 

New  Orleans,  Stories  of 

.S^^;  Locality.  S.  V   The  South 


258 


New  York  by  Campfire  Light 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 
New  York,  Elsie  in 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

New  York,  Stories  of 
See:  Locality 

New   Yorker,   The   Making   of 

A 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Newspaper  Story,  A 

See:  Whirligigs 

"Next  to  Reading  Matter" 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Night  in  New  Arabia,  A 
See:  Strictly  Business 

Night,  The  City  of  Dreadful 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

No  Story 
See:  Options 

No.  2692,  Bexar  Script 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

NoiR,  Rouge  et 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Number  Two,  Cupid's  Exile 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

o 

O.  Henry,  Poem  by  James  Whit- 
comb  Riley 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

October  and  June 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Octopus  Marooned,  The 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

On     Behalf    of    the     Manage- 
ment 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

One  Dollar's  Worth 

See:  Whirligigs 


"One    Rose    I    Twined   Within 
Your  Hair" 

First  line    of    Poem    entitled,  "The 

Four     Roses"     in     Koses,  Ku^cs 

and    Honinnce,    a    story    in  "Ihe 
Voiceof  the  City" 


One  Thousand  Dollars 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Options — Short  Stories 

Contents 

"The  Rose  of  Dixie" 

The  Third  Ingredient 

The  Hiding  of  Black  Bill 

Schools  and  Schools 

Thimble,   Thimble 

Supply  and  Demand 

Buried  Treasure 

To  Him  Who  Waits 

He  Also  Serves 

1  he  iMoment  of  Victory 

The  Head-Hunter 

No  Story 

The  Higher  Pragmatism 

Bestseller 

Rus  in  Urbe 

A  Poor  Rule 


Order,  Law  and 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

O'Roon,  The  Badge  of  Police- 
man 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Other  Fellow,  Helping  The 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Overshot  Wheel,  The  Church 

WITH  AN 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 


Palm,  The  Shamrock  and  the 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Palm,  Tobin's 

See:  Four  .Willion,  The 

Pancakes,  Ihe  Pimienta 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 


259 


Paramount,  The  Flag 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Passing  of  Black  Eagle,  The 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Past  One  at  Rodney's 

See:  Strictly  Business 
Peace,  The  Robe  of 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Peasant,  The  Poet  and  the 
See:  Strictly  Business 

Pendulum,  The 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Personal  Magnet,  Jeff  Peters 

AS  A 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Peters,  Jeff 

See:  Jeff  Peters 

Philanthromathematics,       The 
Chair  of 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Philistine  in  Bohemia,  A 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Phoebe 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Phonograph  and  the  Graft,  The 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Pig,  The  Ethics  of 

5^^;  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

PiMiENTA  Pancakes,  The 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Play,  The  Thing's  the 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Plunkville  Patriot,  Th^ 

Humorous  page  in  "The  Rolling 
Stone."  For  photographs  of  this 
page  see  Rolling  Stones 


Poems  by  O.  Henry 

See:  Trolling  Stones 
Titles: 

The  Pewee 

Nothing  to  Say 

The  Murderer 

Some  Postscripts 

Two  Portraits 

A  Contribution 

The  Old  Farm 

\'anity 

The  Lullaby  Boy 

Chanson  de  Boheme 

Hard  to  Forget 

Drop  a  Tear  in  This  Slot 

Tamales 

Poet  and  the  Peasant,  The 
See:  Strictly  Business 

Policeman  O'Roon,  The  Badge 

OF 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Policy    of    Company    99,    The 
Foreign 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Political     Intrigue,     A     Suc- 
cessful 

See:  Tictocq,  in  Rolling  Stones 

Poor  Rule,  A 

See:  Options 

Porter     Family,      Record     of 
Births  and  Deaths 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Portraits  of  O.  Henry  at  \'ar- 
lous  Ages 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Pragmatism,  The  Higher 

See:  Options 

President,  A  Snapshot  at  the 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Pride  of  the  Cities,  The 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Prince,  A  Chaparral 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 


Plutonian  Firr,  The 
See:  Voice  of  the  City.The 


Princess  and  the  Puma,  The 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 


260 


Prisoner  of  ZembLA,  The 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Proem,  The:  hy  the  Carpenter 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Profile,  The  Enchanted 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Proof  OF  the  Pudding 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Psyche  and  the  Pskyscraper 

See:  Strictl>   Business 

Pudding,  Proof  of  the 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Pulse,  Let  Me  Feel  Your 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Puma,  The  Princess  and  the 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Purple  Dress,  The 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 


Quantity,  The  Unknown 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Queries  and  Answers 

See:  Rolling  Stones 


Ramble  in  Aphasia,  A 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Ranches,    Madame    Bo-peep    of 
the 

See:  Whirligigs 

Ransom  of  Mack,  The 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Rathskeller  and  the  Rose,  the 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

"Reading    Matter,    Next    to" 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Recalls,  Two 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 


Red  Chief,  The  Ransom  of 

See:  \\h]T\\^:,\^:,•< 

Reformation,  A  Ki  irii  ved 

Dramatized  as  "Alias  Jimmy  Valen- 
tine" 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Reformation  of  Calliope,  The 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Remnants    of    the    Code,    The 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Renaissance  AT  Charleroi.  The 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Renegades,  Two 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Report,  A  Municipal 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Reproductions  of  Manuscript 
and  Pages  from  the  Plunk- 
viLLE  Patriot  as  Printed  by 
O.  Henry  in  The  Rolling 
Stone 

See:  Rolling  Stones 
Resurgent,  The  Day 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Retrieved  Reformation,  A 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Rheinschloss,  The  Halberdier 
of  the  Little 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Rilis    the    World,    The    Hand 
'1  hat 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Road,  The  Lonesome 
See:  Roa,ds  of  Destiny 

Roads  of  Destiny — Short  Stor- 
ies 

Contents: 
Roads  of  Destiny 
The  Guardian  of  the  Accolade 
The  Discounters  of  .Money 
The  Knchanted  Profile 
"Next  to  Reading  Matter" 
Art  and  the  Bronco 


261 


Phoebe 

A  Double-Dyed  Deceiver 

The  Passing  of  Black  Eagle 

A  Retrieved  Reformation 

Cherchez  la  Femme 

Friends  in  San  Rosario 

The  Fourth  in  Salvador 

The  Emancipation  of  Billy] 

The  Enchanted  Kiss 

A  Departmental  Case 

The  Renaissance  at  Charleroi 

On  Behalf  of  the  Management 

Whistling  Dick's  Christmas  Stock- 
ing 

The  Halberdier  of  the  Little  Rhem- 
schloss 

Two  Renegades 

The  Lonesome  Road 

Roads  We  Take,  The 

See:  Whirligigs 

Robe  of  Peace,  The 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Rolling  Stone,        The — O. 

Henry's      Newspaper      Pub- 
lished IN  Austin,  Texas 

Extracts 

Tictocq 

Tracked  to  Doom,  or  The  Mystery 
of  the  Rue  de  Peychaud 

A  Snapshot  at  the  President 

Aristocracy  versus  Hash 

The  Prisoner  of  Zembla 

Fickle  Fortune,  or  How  Gladys 
Hustled 

An  Apology 

Bexar  Script  No.  2692 

Queries  and  Answers 

All  of  the  above  ivill  be  found  in  the  vol- 
ume entitled  Rolling  Stones 

Rolling  Stones  (illustrated) 

Stories  and  Sketches  and  Poems  col- 
lected from  various  magazines,  from 
"The  Rolling  Stone,"  O.  Henry's 
Texas  newspaper,  and  from  hitherto 
unpublished  manuscripts 

Contents 

Portrait  of  O.  Henry 

O.  Henry — Poem  by  James  Whit- 
comb  Riley 

Introduction^by  H.  P.  Steger 

Records  of  Births  and  Deaths  in 
the  Porter  Family  Bible 

The  Dream — Unfinished.  The  last 
work  of  O.  Henry 

A  Ruler  of  Men 

The  Atavism  of  John  Tom  Little  Bear 

Helping  the  (Jther  Fellow 

The  Marionettes 

The  Marquis  and  Miss  Sally 

262 


A  Fog  in  Santone 
The  Friendly  Call 

A  Dinner  at 

Sound  and  Fury — Dialogue 

Tictocq  (from  "The  Rolling  Stone"" 

Tracked   to    Doom,   or   the   Myster>' 

of    the    Rue    de    Pe\chaud    (from 

"The  Rolling  Stone") 
A   Snapshot    at    the   President    (Edi- 
torial in  "The  Rolling  Stone") 
An  Unfinished  Christmas  Story 
The     Unprofitable     Servant — Unfin- 
ished 
Aristocrac}'  versus  Hash  (from  "The 

Rolling  Stone") 
The  Prisoner  of  Zembla  (from  "The 

Rolling  Stone") 
A  Strange  Story  (from  "The  Rolling 

Stone") 
Fickle     Fortune,    or     How     Gladys 

Hustled    (from       "The        Rolling 

Stone") 
An    Apology     (from     "The     Rolling 

Stone") 
Lord    Oakhurst's    Curse    (sent    in    a 

letter  to  Dr.  Beall,  Greensboro,  N. 

C.,in  1883 
Bexar  Script   No.   2692   (from  "The 

Roiling  Stone") 
Queries    and    Answers    (from    "The 

Rolling  Stone") 

Poems 

The  Pewee 
Nothing  to  Say 
The  .Murderer 
Some  Postscripts 

Two  Portraits 

A  Contribution 

The  Old  Farm 

Vanity 

The  Lullaby  Boy 

Chanson  de  Boheme 

Hard  to  Forget 
Drop  a  Tear  in  This  Slot 

Tamales 

Letters 

To  .Mr.  Oilman  Hall  of  Everybody's 
Magazine 

To  Mrs.  Hall  of  North  Carolina,  an 
early  letter 

To  Dr.  W.  P.  Be.Tll,  an  old  friend  in 
North  C^arolina — a  humorous  letter 
about  a  pla\'  he  has  written 

Two  more  letters  to  Dr.  Beall 

Four  Letters  to  Dave — .Mr.  David 
Harrel! 

Parable  Letter 

Two  Letters  to  His  Daughter  Mar- 
garet 

To  Mr.  Cosgrove  of  Everybody's 
Magazine 

To  Mr.  Oilman  Hall — about  his 
approaching  marriage  to  Miss  Sara 


S.  C.  l.indsav  Coleman,  of  Asheville, 
To  Colonel  CirilVith 
Two  Letters  to  Mr.  Al.  JcnninK*!  of 

Oklahoma,  who  in  his  youth  held 

up  trains 
To  Mr.  H.  P.  Ste^er— about  the  title 

of  one  of  his  stories 
To     Mr.     Steger — unfinished     letter 

about  a  novel  he  wanted  to  write, 
i  wo  letters  to  .Mr.  .M.  Jennings  about 

the  material   for    "Holding    up    a 

Train"     (see    Sixes    and     Sevens) 

which   Mr.  Jennings  had   supplied 

from  personal  e.xperience. 

Cartoons 

Original  by  O.  Henry — see  Sketches 
facing  pages  29,  48,  49,  64,  6,, 
80,  81,  9b,  97,  249  and  inserts  be- 
tween pages  232  and  233. 

Photographs 

Last     Photograph.     See    frontispiece 
At  the  ag<?  of  two.  facing  page  29 
With  Three  Friends,  facmg  page  21 
In  Austin.  i8y<i.  facing  page  28 
Photographs    of     Documents     found 

in  O.  Henry's  belongings  after  his 

death 
Credentials     which     the     boy     Will 

Porter  took  to  Texas,  facing  pages 

1 12  and  I  I  3 
A  page  of  "The  Plunkville  Patriot." 

facing  pages  128,   160  and  176  and 

inserts  between  pages  248  and  249 
Pages  of  "The  Rolling  Stone,"  facing 

pages  129,  161,  177,  232 
Manuscript  of  a  letter  to  his  daughter, 

Margaret,  facing  page  248 

RoM.\NCE  OF  .\  Busy  Broker,  The 

See:  Four  Million, The 

Romance,  Roses,  Ruses  and 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Romance,     Suite     Homes     and 
Their 
See:  Whirligigs 

Room,  The  Furnished 

See:  Four  .Million,  The 

Room,  The  Skylight 

See:  Four  .Million,  The 

Rooney's,  Past  One  at 
See:  Strictly  Business 

"Rose  of  Dixie,  The" 
See:  Options 


Rose,  The  Rathskeller  and  the 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Roses,  Ruses  and  Romance 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Roses,  The  Four — Verse 

See:  looses.  Ruses  and  Romance 

Rouge  Et  Noir 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Rounds,  Between 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

RUBAIYAT     OF      A      ScOTCH      HIGH- 
BALL,   The 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Rubber,  A  Co.medy  in 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Rue  De  Peychaud,  The  Mys- 
tery OF  the,  or  Tracked  to 
Doom 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Rule,  A  Poor 

See:  Options 

Ruler  of  Men,  \ 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Ruling,  Georgia's 

See:  Whirligigs 

Rural  Sports,  Modern 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Rus  In  Urbe 

See:  Options 

Ruses,  Roses — and  Romance 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 


Sables,  Vanity  and  Some 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Sacrifice  Hit,  A 
See:  Whirligigs 

Salvador,  The  Fourth  in 
See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


263 


San  Rosario,  Friends  in 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Santone,  a  Fog  in 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Schools  and  Schools 

See:  Options 

Science    of    Matrimony,    The 
Exact 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Scotch  Highball,  The  Rubaiyat 
of  a 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 
Script  No.  2692,  Bexar 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Season,  Compliments  of  the 
See:  Strictly  Business 

Seats  of  the  Haughty 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Serge  and  Straw,  Sociology  in 
See:  Whirligigs 

Sergeant,  The  Song  and  the 

See:  Whirligigs 

Servant,  The  Unprofitable 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Serves,  He  Also 

See:  Options 

Service  of  Love,  A 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Shamrock  and  the  Palm,  The 
See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Shamrock  Jolnes 

A  character  occurring  in  The  Sleuths 
and  also  in  The  Adventures  of 
Shamrock  Jolnes 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Shearing  the  Wolf 
See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 


Shocks  of  Doom,  The 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Shoes 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Sisters  of  the  Golden  Circle 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Sixes   and   Sevens — Short   Sto- 
ries 

Contents 

The  Last  of  the  Troubadours 

The  Sleuths 

Witches'  Loaves 

The  Pride  of  the  Cities 

Holding  Up  a  Train 

Ulysses  and  the  Dogman 

The  Champion  of  the  Weather 

Makes  the  Whole  Uorld  Kin 

At  Arms  with  Morpheus 

The  Ghost  of  a  Chance 

Jimmie  Hayes  and  Muriel 

The  Door  of  Unrest 

The  Duplicity  of  Hargraves 

Let  Me  Feel  "^'our  Pulse 

October  and  June 

The     Church     with      an     Overshot 

Wheel 
New  York  by  Campfire  Light 
The  Adventures  of  Shamrock  Jolnes 
The  Lady  Higher  Up 
The  Greater  Coney 
Law  and  Order 

Transformation  of  Martin  Burney 
The  Caliph  and  the  Cad 
The  Diamond  of  Kali 
The  Day  We  Celebrate 

Skylight  Room,  The 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Sleuths,  The 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Smith 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Snapshot  at  the   President,  A 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Social  Triangle,  The 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Sociology  in  Serge  and  Straw 

See:  Whirligigs 


Ships 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 


Solito,  Hygeia  at  the 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 


264 


Song    and   thf    Serc.f.ant,   The 

Sfe:  Whirligigs 

Soul,  Thl  Eastrr  of  the 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  1  he 

Sound  and  Fury — Dialogue 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

South  America,  Stories  of 

See:  Locality 

South,  Stories  of  the 
See:  Locality 

"Speck  in  Garnered  Fruit,  Lit- 
tle" 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Sphinx  Apple,  The 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Sports,  Modern  Rural 

See:  Gentle  Grafter.  The 

Springtime  A  La  Carte 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Squaring  the  Circle 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

Steger,  H.  p. 

Personal  friend  of  O.  Henry's  who 
edited  Rolling  Stones  and  wrote 
the  introduction  to  the  last  col- 
lection of  his  works. 

See:  Rolling  Stones 

Story,  an  Unfinished 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

Strange  Story,  A 

5^^.-  Rolling  Stones 

Straw,  Sociology  in  Serge  and 

See:  Whirligigs 


Strictly     Business — S 
Stories 

Contents 

Strictly  Business 

The  Gold  That  Glittered 

Babes  in  the  Jungle 

The  Dav  Resurgent 

The  Fifth  Wheel 

The  Poet  and  the  Peasant 


H    O    R    T 


265 


The  Robe  of  F^eace 
The  Girl  and  the  Graft 
The  Call  of  the  I  ame 
The  L  nknown  Quantity 
The  Thing's  the  Play 
A  Ramble  in  .Aphasia 
A  .Municipal  Report 
Psvcheand  the  Psk\scraper 
A  Bird  of  Bagdad 
Compliments  of  the  Season 
A  Night  in  New  Arabia 
The  Girl  and  the  Habit 
Proof  of  the  Pudding 
Past  One  at  Rooney's 
The  \'enturers 
The  Duel 
"\\  hat  "t'ou  Want" 

Success,  The  Assessor  of 

See:  Trimmed  l-amp,  The 

Successful  Political  Intrigue, 
A 

See:  Tictocq  in  Rolling  Stones 

Suite    Homes    and    Their    Ro- 
mance 

See:  Whirligigs 

Supply  and  Demand 
See:  Options 


Tainted  Tenner,  Thh  1  ale  of  a 
See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Tame,  The  Call  of  the 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Technical  Error,  A 

See:  Whirligigs 

Telemachus,  Friend 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Tempered  Wind,  .\ 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Tenner,  The  Tale  of  a  Tainted 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Texas,  Stories  of 

See:  Locality,  Stories  of  the  West 

Thanksgiving   Day  Gentlemen. 
1  wo 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 


Their  Lights,  According  to 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp  The 

Theory    and   the    Hound,    The 

See:  Whirligigs 

Thimble,  Thimble 

See:  Options 

Thing's  the  Play,  The 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Third  Ingredient,  The 

See:  Options 

Thousand  Dollars,  One 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

TlCTOCQ 

Two  French  Detective  Stories 
A  Successful  Political  Intrigue 
Tracked  to  Doom 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

TiLDY,  The  Brief  Debut  of 
See:  Four  Million,  The 

To  Him  Who  Waits 

See:  Options 

Tobin's  Palm 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Tommy's  Burglar 

See:  Whirligigs 

Tracked  to  Doom,  or  the  Mys- 
tery of  the  Rue  De  Peychaud 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Tragedy,  A  Harlem 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Tragedy,  "The  Guilty  Party" 
— An  East  Side 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Train,  Holding  up  a 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Transformation      of      Martin 
BuRNEY,  The 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Transients  in  Arcadia 
See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 


Treasure,  Buried 
See:  Options 

Triangle,  The  Social 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Trimmed    Lamp,    The — S  h  o  r  t 
Stories 

Contents 

The  Trimmed  Lamp 

A  Madison  Square  Arabian  Night 

The  Rubahat  of  a  Scotch    Highball 

The  Pendulum 

Two  Thanksgiving  Day  Gentlemen 

The  Assessor  of  Success 

The  Buyer  from  Cactus  City 

The  Badge  of  Policeman  O'Roon 

Brickdust  Row 

The  Making  of  a  New  Yorker 

Vanit\-  and  Some  Sables 

The  Social  Triangle 

The  Purple  Dress 

The  Foreign  Policy  of  Company  go 

The  Lost  Blend 

A  Harlem  Tragedy 

"The  Guilty  Party" — An   East  Side 

Tragedy 
According  to  Their  Lights 
A  Midsummer  Knight's  Dream 
The  Last  Leaf 

The  Count  and  the  Wedding  Guest 
The  Countrv  of  Elusion 
The  Ferr}'  of  Unfulfiiment 
The  Tale  of  a  Tainted  Tenner 
Elsie  in  New  York 

Troubadours,  The  Last  of  the 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Twenty  Years,  After 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Two  Recalls 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

Two  Renegades 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 

Two    Thanksgiving    Day    GeN' 
tlemen 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

u 

Ulysses  and  the  Dogman 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Unfinished     Christmas     Story, 
An 

See:  Rolling  Stones 


266 


Unfinished  Story,  An 

See:  Four  Million,  The 

Lnfllfilment,  The  Fef^ry  of 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Unknown  Quantity,  The 
5^^.  Strictly  Business 

Unprofitable  Servant,  The 
See:  Rolling  Stones 

Unrest,  The  Door  of 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Urbe,  Rus  in 
5^^;  Options 


\  ALLEY    Johnson,    The     Indian 
Summer  of  Dry 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

N'anitv  and  Some 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

Venturers,  The 

See:  Strictly  Business 

\icTORY,  The  Moment  of 

See:  Options 

X'itagraphoscope,  The 

See:  Cabbages  and  Kings 

\oicE  OF  THE  City,  The — Short 
Stories 

Contents 


The  Rathskeller  and  the  Rose 

The  C^larion  CM 

Lxtraditcd  from  Bohemia 

A  Philistine  in  Boiiemia 

From  Each  According  to  Flis  Ability 

The  Memento 

w 

Waits,  To  Him    Who 
See:  Options 

Way,  The  Caballero's 
See:  Heart  of  the  West 

Weather,  The  Champion  of  the 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Wedding  Guest,  The  Count  and 
the 

See:  Trimmed  Lamp,  The 

West,  Heart  of  the 

See:  Heart  of  the  West 

West,  Stories  of  the 

See:  Locality 

"What  You  Want" 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Wheel,    The   Church    with    an 
Overshot 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

Wheel,  The  Fifth 

See:  Strictly  Business 

Where  to  Dine  Well 

See:  A  Dinner  at  —  in  Rolling  Stones 


w 


The  \'oice  of  the  City 

The  Complete  Life  of  John  Flopkins 

A  Lickpenny  Lover 

Doughert\  s  Eye-Opener 

"  Little  Speck  in  Garnered  Fruit"  \\ 

The  Harbinger 

While  the  Auto  Waits 

A  Comedy  in  Rubber 

One  Thousand  Dollars  W 

The  Defeat  of  the  City 

The  Shocks  of  Doom 

The  Plutonian  Fire 

Nemesis  and  the  (^andy  Man 

Squaring  the  Circle 

Koses,  Ruses,  and  Romance 

The  City  of  Dreadful  Night 

The  Easter  of  the  Soul 

The  Fool-Killer 

Transients  in  Arcadia 

267 


hile  the  Auto  Waits 

See:  Voice  of  the  City,  The 

HiRLiGiG  of  Life,  The 

See:  Whirligigs 

HiRLiGiGs — Short  Stories 

Contents 

The  World  and  the  Door 

The  Theory  and  the  Hound 

The  Hyix)thcses  of  Failure 

Calloway's  Code 

A  Matter  of  Mean  Elevation 

"Girl" 

Sociology  in  Serge  and  Straw 


The  Ransom  of  Red  Chief 

The  Marr}-  .Month  of  May 

A  Technical  Error 

Suite  Homes  and  Their  Romance 

The  Whirhgigs  of  Life 

A  Sacrifice  Hit 

The  Roads  We  Take 

A  Blackjack  Bargainer 

The  Song  and  the  Sergeant 

One  Dollar's  Worth 

A  Newspaper  Story 

Tommy's  Burglar 

A  Chaparral  Christmas  Gift 

A  Little  Local  Color 

Georgia's  Ruling 

Blind  Man's  Holiday 

Madame  Bo-Peep  of  the  Ranches 


Whistling      Dick's 
Stocking 

See:  Roads  of  Destiny 


Christmas 


Wind,  A  Tempered 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

Vv'itches'  Loaves 
See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 


Wolf,  Shearing  the 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 

World  and  the  Door,  The 

See:  Whirligigs 

World,     Makes    the    Whole — 
Kin 

See:  Sixes  and  Sevens 

World,    The   Hand  That  Riles 
the 

See:  Gentle  Grafter,  The 


Yellow     Dog,     Memoirs    of    a 
See:  Four  Million,  The 


Zembla,  The  Prisoner  of 
See-  Rolling  Stones 


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THE    COUNTRY    LIFE    PRESS 
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